WARNOCK@PRISM.CLEMSON.EDU.UUCP (10/30/87)
Is there any documentation on how to talk to VMSMail from a machine that runs DECnet but is NOT running VMS ? In particular, I'm interested in writing the equivilent of MAIL.EXE that will talk from this foreign machine to a DECnet node running VMS via the DECnet object. Any clues, hints, programs that do this, etc. would be appreciated ! Todd Warnock VAX Systems Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina 29634-2803 ARPA: Warnock@Prism.Clemson.EDU BITnet: Warnock@Clemson
kvc@nrcvax.UUCP (Kevin Carosso) (11/05/87)
In article <8711020104.AA16826@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> WARNOCK@PRISM.CLEMSON.EDU (Todd Warnock) writes: >Is there any documentation on how to talk to VMSMail from a machine that >runs DECnet but is NOT running VMS ? In particular, I'm interested in >writing the equivilent of MAIL.EXE that will talk from this foreign machine >to a DECnet node running VMS via the DECnet object. > >Any clues, hints, programs that do this, etc. would be appreciated ! > >Todd Warnock The protocol involved is called MAIL-11. I wrote something I called SENDMAIL way back in the waning days of VMS V3.X that spoke MAIL-11 so I could get stuff between our UUCP port and VMS MAIL. I put it on a DECUS tape back then. Let's see... VMS V4 showed up somewhere around X-mas of '84, right? I think I put it on the Spring '84 (possibly fall '84) DECUS tape then. I know I've seen it in the DECUS SIG tape index on subsequent tapes. That should point you to the right tape. Once V4 showed up I cut over to the foreign protocol interface and ditched the SENDMAIL code. One of the DEC related rags, DEC Professional maybe?, had an article with a BASIC program that spoke a limited bit of MAIL-11 -- enough to forge MAIL messages. I believe the article was pointing out the fact that electronic mail is not particularly secure. This was some time ago, like last year or the year before. Wish I could be more specific. /Kevin Carosso kvc@nrcvax.uucp Network Research Co. kvc@engvax.scg.hac.com ps. It might have been called DELIVERMAIL...