[comp.sys.next] NeXTmail from home!

mitroo@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo) (04/20/91)

Here's a really simple way for people who have a NeXT at home (connected
through a modem using kermit) to receive and store their e-mail on their NeXT.

Instead of typing "mail" or "elm" or whatever from your mail account, type:
	cat /usr/spool/mail/login_name
(login_name is the name of your account, of course)
Then, just highlight your entire mail file with the mouse and copy it to the
clipboard - command-c.

Then, open up a new document in Edit and paste in the text from the clipboard.
Save this file into your /usr/spool/mail directory on your NeXT with the name
of the file being the name of your account on your NeXT.  (You could also type
"cat > /usr/spool/mail/login_name" command-v control-d)

When you run Mail, your e-mail will show up on your NeXT (you may have to
select "New Mail" from the menu.)  This will also receive NeXTmail correctly.
Now you can create mailboxes and store your mail with the nice features of
the NeXT! (including pictures of people)


I know this may seem really simple to some people, and I know there are better
ways to do this, but I'm tired of hearing USER GROUP LEADERS for the NeXT
complaining that they do not want to receive NeXTmail as they have no way of
interpreting it.
-- 
You are young, they are old
Control is all they've got to give
Just live how you want to live
Tiny things that make you slave

efc@athena.mit.edu (E.Celeste) (04/20/91)

Folks who are trying to read NeXTmail from home (or who just want to archive
their mail at home) may want to try the MailService app I put on the purdue
archives in February.

MailService provides a service (you know, in the services menu) that will send
any selected text directly to your /usr/spool/mail file so that it will show
up in the NeXT Mail application. This means that you can use kermit or tip in
the Terminal app to connect to wherever you get your mail, read the mail, and
if you want to keep it (or if its NeXTmail and looks like mumbles) you just
select it (including headers) and click on the Send As Message menu item
provided by MailService.

Select and click, that's all.

This program is on the nova.cc.purdue.edu archive (an probably elsewhere)
in the pub/next/2.0-release/binaries/MailService.tar.Z file
with sources included in pub/next/2.0-release/source/MailSerSource.tar.Z

Have fun!
...Eric

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E.Celeste