From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 22 13:06:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21562 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:06:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ralf.serv.net (ralf.serv.net [205.153.153.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20892 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:03:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcglk@ralf.serv.net) Received: (from mcglk@localhost) by ralf.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA23891; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:02:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:02:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199810222002.NAA23891@ralf.serv.net> From: Ken McGlothlen MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Barry A. Tigner" CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: mail format conversion/ transfer for VMS mail References: <01BDFD9E.C5C516D0@eshop1.pa.msu.edu> <199810221756.KAA23393@ralf.serv.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.33 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mcglk@serv.net (Ken McGlothlen) writes: | tigner@pa.msu.edu (Barry A. Tigner) writes: | | | Our current mail system is VMS mail. Do you know of any method or utility | | to move mail from VMS mail to a mail server on a FreeBSD system ? VMS mail | | allows mail to be stored in mail folders. When you are in VMS mail, there | | is NO command to perform a multiple FORWARD or SEMD or of all mail in a | | folder to another server. We have hundreds of users who want to keep their | | old mail. [...] | | [...] it should be possible to save a list of the messages you have in a | given folder to a text file, and then have a .COM file run through that list, | building *another* .COM file that would go through the entire folder and save | each message as text to a temporary file, and then append [...] Barry, I did some checking around, and it turns out that there's an EXTRACT command in VMS/MAIL now. Typing extract/all bargle.txt should take all messages in the current folder, and dump them into the text file you specify (in this case, bargle.txt). You'll still have to convert the headers to something Unixy, but that's a lot better than writing some messy .COM file to dump messages individually. ---Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message