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6.2 How do I send or read attachments in VMS MAIL?
Is there any way to send or read mail with files as
attachments from VMS?
Not directly with the OpenVMS MAIL facility, but there
are several other options:
o Install PINE, available commercially from Innosoft
or free from Andy Harper. With PINE you can both
send and receive MIME messages, if you have the
appropriate viewers available.
o
http://www.process.com/ o
http://www.agh.cc.kcl.ac.uk/files/vms/pine-vms/ o
ftp://ftp2.kcl.ac.uk/pub/vms/pine-vms/ o If you are working from an X Windows display, you
can use the OpenVMS version of Netscape Navigator or
Mozilla. The mail download protocol chosen to access
the mail server from the Navigator or Mozilla mail
client can be POP or IMAP, with the former causing
messages to be downloaded while the latter permits
messages to be retained on the mail server. Most
folks prefer IMAP for this reason.
o MPACK/MUNPACK. To send a MIME mail, construct the
message with attachments manually using MPACK. You
cannot send the resulting file directly through MAIL
because an extra blank header line will be inserted
between your message and the OpenVMS MAIL headers,
which will cause the message to appear as plain text
in most mail programs. Some TCP/IP stacks provide
a work around for this problem, and if that doesn't
work, you should generally be able to force the
message directly into the SMTP port of your mail
machine. Examples of both methods are in:
o
http://saf.bio.caltech.edu/pub/software/openvms/mmail.com To read a MIME mail message, open it in MAIL,
extract it to a file, then use MUNPACK to break
out and decode the attachments.
MPACK/MUNPACK tools are also available on OpenVMS
Freeware V5.0.
o With OpenVMS V7.2 and later, use the MIME tool
supplied with OpenVMS.
