topic Re: mail attachment in VMS mail utility in Operating System - OpenVMS

mail attachment in VMS mail utility

Bjay — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:04:10 GMT

Hi

I have sent an email with txt file attached to one of my vms machine email is successfully received at VMS end but I am not sure hot to extract the txt file attachment or how to save the attachment to my vms machine

Please help
Thanks
Bjay

Re: mail attachment in VMS mail utility

Volker Halle — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:33:09 GMT

Bjay,

use the MIME utility...

$ mime:==$MIME
$ mail
MAIL> READ ! read the mail
MAIL> EXTRACT/NOHEAD x.x
MAIL> EXIT
$ MIME x.x
MIME> LIST ! find attachment number
MIME> EXTRACT/ATT=n
MIME> EXIT

Volker.

Re: mail attachment in VMS mail utility

Bjay — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:13:50 GMT

Thank you Volker it worked and now I can use Attachments in VMS hurray!!!!

Re: mail attachment in VMS mail utility

Paul Jerrom — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:22:35 GMT

Just be careful with the attachment numbers. I wrote a script to process emails, and some of them have no attachment 1, although they do have attachment 2, 3, etc!! So if you automate the reading of the email and the extraction of the attachments, don't assume a failure to extract attachment 1 means there aren't any.

have fun,

PJ