From: Richard L. Dyson [rick-dyson@uiowa.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 11:40 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: VMS mail -> Unix mail

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> 
>         Since VMS Mail is normally stored in Prolog-3 indexed sequential
> files, you have your work cut out for you!  To make your life still more
> interesting, messages with bodies larger than about 1500 bytes are stored,
> minus the From:, Subject: and date-time, in separate sequential files
> pointed to by the indexed sequential file.  The only simple way to read
> those files is to restore them on a VMS system, use MAIL to extract them to
> a sequential file and then move the sequential file to your Unix system.
> Munging that sequential file into something that can be read by mail or
> Mail is relatively simple by comparison!

	I have a utility program I got somewhere LONG ago that runs on
OpenVMS to convert MAIL*.MAI files (folders and all) into the 'flat'
files
that PC and Unix mail clients like.  It even works well to convert your
OpenVMS MAIL folders to Netscape Mail for OpenVMS.

	Anonymous FTP:

		ftp://www-pi.physics.uiowa.edu/~dyson/extract_mail.zip

Regards,
Rick
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