🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <43362@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu
	(Lily Liou) writes:
>Here's what happens:  I log on to the mainframe at school by
>using my modem under Terminal to dial up.  I check my non-NeXT
>mail and find that some nice person has written stuff to me
>with a NeXTattachment.  So how do I look at this object?
>
>I've tried saving it as a file, and moving it over to my next, but
>when I open it, it's still garbage.

Don't do that.  :-)  (But it doesn't hurt anything.)

>I've tried pasting the garbagy looking part (from 'begin' to 'end'
>statements) into an active.mbox in the hopes of fooling my NeXT
>into opening it as NeXTmail, but it seems to know better :-(

Big mistake here.

>Am I just missing the obvious?

Probably.

Take the entire message (that's everything beginning with and
including the "From " line) and append it to your incoming
mailbox, which is normally /usr/spool/mail/username (where
"username" is replaced with your login name).  Then launch
NeXT Mail.  It doesn't matter how the message got there, as
long as it's in the right place.

Basically, you want to take all your NeXT Mail messages on the
remote system and save them to a [UNIX mbox format] file.  It's
OK to save several messages into one file.  Transfer that file
to your NeXT (by whatever means), and do

	cat mailfile >>/usr/spool/mail/username
	    ^^^^^^^^                   ^^^^^^^^
	    whatever                   whatever

					-=EPS=-