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From: INDUGERD@CNEDCU51.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: help for building a mailing list
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Date: 27 Jul 88 08:19:00 GMT
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Hello,
I need help to build up a local mailing list on our vax.
I do not want to install some heavy listserver software but to use the tools
available on our machine, namely the Mail and Gmail utilities.

As Gmail can be used with a distribution file, it seems to work fine for
broadcasting messages.

The problem I have is to build the file to be braodcasted. The idea is to
gather the messages received in one file for broadcasting it afterward.
But I have problems to find a simple way to obtain a clean file after
gathering. By clean I mean to have each individual message headed only by the
from, date and subject fields.

I tried the extract/all/noheader options of Mail but there still remain a lot
of heading information that I do not want. Of course a solution could be to
write a program in some language for cleaning up the file. But is not there
any simpler solution or any such program already written somewhere ?

Thanks for help.

Please write to my own E-mail address as I am not on the info-vax list.

Philippe Dugerdil
Univ. Of Neuchatel
Switzerland

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