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- From: browning@ccfsun.nrl.navy.mil (Donald R. Browning)
- Subject: VMS to UNIX transition, e-mail questions
- Message-ID: <C1GuE7.LtF@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil
- Organization: Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:46:54 GMT
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- Our site provides e-mail service on a VAXcluster for
- approximately 200 administrative users. Most of these are
- novice users for whom e-mail is the primary, and in many
- cases the exclusive, reason for accessing our systems. Our
- VMS VAXes are being phased out this year, replaced by a UNIX
- platform. Some of these users will be able to fall back on
- VAXes in their divisions; while others, with PCs or Macs,
- will be supplied with a POPmail interface to access messages
- stored on our UNIX-based file server system. However, we
- expect that many users will need to make the transition to
- the UNIX mail utility.
-
- A concern has been raised about "old" messages stored in VMS
- MAIL.MAI files. If our users simply forward them to the
- UNIX platform or the file server, the original date of
- receipt will no longer appear when the UNIX user lists the
- message headers, i.e. they will see the date of transfer
- instead. This should not be a problem for users who took
- our e-mail course and organized their messages in folders,
- as was highly recommended. However, we anticipate that a
- number of these users will have many (a year's worth)
- messages stored in one folder, "MAIL", and that their most
- common method of searching through the messages listing is
- by scanning the receipt dates.
-
- With this situation in mind, I would like to pose the
- following questions:
-
-
- 1) If your site has gone through a transition like
- this, how did you handle the e-mail message
- storage?
-
- 2) Has anyone written a utility that will convert
- VMS mail headers into a format that can be
- "recognized" by the UNIX Mail utility? Ideally,
- we would like to create an extracted file of VMS
- mail, convert it, and then ftp the file to our
- UNIX platform as the user's "mbox" file.
-
- 3) Are there other important considerations that
- we have overlooked?
-
-
- Please e-mail responses.
-
-
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-
- Donald R. Browning
- Code 5841.3
-