From: HENRY::IN%"A105%UWOCC1.BITNET%WISCVM.WISC.EDU%SRI-KL.ARPA%relay.cs.net@rca.com" 20-SEP-1986 20:48 To: INFO-VAX-SUBMIT Subj: MAIL This is probably not new to you guys. For accounting reasons, I had to create an alias account on the VAX, and it shares the home directory with the 'real' account. Thus it shares the mailbox as well. When I read new mail now, the count of NEW mail messages is only adjusted for the account used for reading the mail. The alternate entry in the VMSMAIL.DAT file is not correctly updated. The fix is to issue READ/NEW to MAIL, and the new mail count will be corrected. Now some good stuff. Our site is developing a new VMS mailer. It will conform to the Interner Standards RFC822 (for message format) and RFC821/ BSMTP (for message transfer). The objective is a JNET bridge between DECnet and the Columbia Mailer. This is not yet available, and will not be in time for SF DECUS. Maybe in time for Nashville. However, if you want more information, please contact our postmaster, Reg Quinton. His address is (ie same as me - use A362 in place of A105). It is intended that this S/W will be publicly available when completed and stable. It will NOT be prematurely released. Hope this is of some interest to the readership of INFO-VAX. Brent Sterner Computing & Communications Services Natural Sciences Building The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7 Telephone (519)661-2151 x6036 Network