xrjjm%csdr.span@JPL-VLSI.ARPA (04/13/87)
Comment: Begin User Supplied Mail Headers. *Site: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, Maryland, USA. *Position: 76 Deg. 52' 28.5" West, 38 Deg. 59' 59.8" North. *From: John J. McMahon, Systems Programmer, STX - ST Systems Corporation. *Project: COBE Science Data Room (CSDR), Code 401.1 *Reply-To: (Arpa-Internet) XRJJM%CSDR.SPAN@JPL-VLSI.ARPA *Reply-To: (Bitnet) ZMJJM@SCFVM *Reply-To: (Span/Physnet/Hepnet) 6173::XRJJM = CSDR::XRJJM (Node 6.29) *Reply-To: (TEXnet) UTADNX::UTSPAN::CSDR::XRJJM Well... VMS Mail 4 does support distribution lists... Check the VMS mail manual, Page MAIL-12. However, it doesn't support the other features at all. Store & Forward seems to be a DECnet problem, after all... DECnet doesn't use Store & Forward for file transfer, why should it do it for anything else ? (Commercial products, like JNET cure this problem in a snap...) I suppose asking DEC for Store & Forward DECnet would be nice. Bulletin Boards within mail don't seem to work since the default protection for a MAIL.MAI file is S:RW,O:RW. Even if you set protection on the file to something else, the external files (The ones starting with MAIL$nnnnnn...) are created with the same protection. Perhaps you could override that with an ACL... hmm... The various mail facilities on BITNET spoiled me I suspect... I wish I had 'em here... Regards, ^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v John J. McMahon (Fast-Eddie) Disclaimer: Views expressed in this letter are my own, and are not meant to represent the views of my employers.