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In article <14gc24INN876@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell)  
writes:
> 
> In article <1992Jul21.060941.13650@cc.tut.fi> tomi@cc.tut.fi (Heinonen Tomi)  
writes:
> >My own next is not connected to internet but I would like to read mail with  
it.
> >I have transferred mails from my schools computer by modem. (simply copying
> >/usr/spool/mail/username to my nexts /usr/spool/mail/username)
> >Now I am wondering if there is any apps that could make the same  
automatically
> >Or even better if it could send mails from my own next (using the address of 
> >schools machine).
>[description of mailservice deleted 
> Outbound mail is not so convenient.  I mail them to myself from Mail,
>[...]

Note this solution will not easily send nextmail, or put a subject
line on the mail message...

One thought is getting Kermit for the Next.  It has a server/mail mode, which
you connect to the remote next (or actually any system running the current
C-Kermit), and escape back to the remote machine and at the kermit prompt

mail filespec user@host.domain [address2...addressn]

This sends mail via your account on the remote system, sans subject line.

Since my modem costs are almost free (one plus about dial-back security), I  
typically first download my user/spool/mail/gbb to my home next, read the mail,  
use Edit to build the response.

You get the mail transferred in error free mode, you don't have to 
go up and play with the remote host's command line mail tool, and while a 
long message is tranferring, you can be reading your next message.

An obvious hack to sending NeXTmail is to create a dummy user on your
local machine, use Mail to reply to that dummy user, and then edit the
header, leaving the attachment header line in the body of the message.
Then kermit-mail the file off to the remote user.

- Geoff
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"The only thing obsoleted by Windows 3.1 is poking myself in the
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