POP question.

[Willem Grooters]

Now I've got my mail up and running, it turns out that retrieving it using Outlook (via POP) gives a quite different result than expected.
First: I get ALL the headers in the message where retrieved from another system, these seem to be hidden (only showing if explicitly requested)
Second: Attachements (MIME?) are NOT translated on receipt (in Outlook), but after saving the message and decode it, it's Ok.
I guess there should be a setting on the VMS machine that would prevent hiding of the full header and the translation of attachements (images, for instance). But which one(s)?

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

Hello Willem,

I never did POP, just IMAP (via Mozilla on Linux). No special settings
required there to "hide" the headers and decode attachments. Where do you have your headers, TOP or BOTTOM? BOTTOM might confuse Outlook, the parsing algorithms they use seem to be "interesting". Worst case you could use /opt=noheaders to supress them at all.

Greetings, Martin

[Willem Grooters]

Martin,
The web-based client I use (to check mail from 'outside') is Ok as well: no headers, and attachements translated and downloadable.
But Outlook retrieves the whole message and will handle it as ASCII text completely. Why that? I cannot imagine a principal difference in format - unless VMS needs separate settings.

[Dieter Rossbach]

I use outlook 98 to read my email from my VMS-Systems without problems.

I have the following logical defined:

def/sys TCPIP$POP_INGORE_MAIL11_HEADERS 1


Check some of your SMTP server definition as well, it must be configured with /options=TOP_HEADERS

Regards

Dieter

[Willem Grooters]

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It proved not only a setting of POP (Thanx Dieter), as I could conclude after finding out that mail, created on the VMS machine directly, didn't have this problem. So there should be a SMTP setting involved as well, and the manual should be followed TO THE LETTER : TCPIP$SMTP_JACKET_LOCAL must be set to 1. "TRUE" (as I had it set to) won't do.