nagy%bsndbg.hepnet@LBL.ARPA (03/17/87)
In VMS V4.4 and V4.5 (at least, the functionality may have been added earlier), if you are using MAIL from a captive account (the CAPTIVE bit is set in the UAF flags), then mail responds with: %MAIL-E-CAPTIVE, this command cannot be executed. Your account is CAPTIVE. to any effort to use the SPAWN command. I remembered this being mentioned in the SIR session at San Francisco DECUS and tested it on a V4.5 system here.
SITTERUD%PLU@AMES-IO.ARPA (03/18/87)
In VMS V4.2 does not allow a subprocess to be spawned from within MAIL on a CAPTIVE account. Anne Sitterud NASA Ames Research Center sitterud@ames-pluto.arpa Disclaimer: If you don't make dust, you eat dust.