We have an e-mail client on our HPe3000 called elm.
It lives in elm.hpbin.sys, and reads e-mail sent to mailboxes on the
HPe3000.

It seems to work reasonable well. It invokes vi as it's editor of choice for
new messages, and probably more to read messages.

I can send messages to [log in to unmask], and cc
[log in to unmask], and Lo! Both get the messages, elm reads the MGR.NHA etc
one, and MS Lookout gets the neil@ one.

I don't know enough about elm to know if it can be run in batch to extract
and forward messages, but I'm pretty sure there about 1 million and 1 shell
scripts, PERL scripts, Java applets etc that understand the dreaded mail
api.

Also, Jens once developed something that extracted data sent as an
attachment to our HPe3000 and ran a process/job every time it arrived. He is
away for a week or so, but I'll copy him on this, and he'll read it when he
gets back....

Not sure if this helps, but there it is.

Neil


-----Original Message-----
From: Born, Ken [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 08 February 2001 06:10
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Sendmail/ix Extracting data


Greetings,
I have been reading the various discussions of SendMail from the Listserv
group with interest.
I am thinking about using this as a way to send/receive messages from mobile
dumb terminals.
To Send, I would create a screen for the dumb terminal and extract the
information and use MAILER to send messages.  I don't see a problem with
this.

However, I have not figured out how I am going to be able to extract email
from the hp3000 and send it to the mobile dumb terminal client.

My question is "How can I extract email data sent to me on the HP3000 ?".  I
cannot use any client tools that run on the pc(browsers).  This is a dumb
terminal configuration.  I would need to create a program on the HP3000 to
read this "File" or however it is stored and then process the transaction.
Can I access the email file?  Is it stored in individual groups/accounts on
the HP3000.  Is it readable by 3GL languages?

Also, any websites that I could look at would be appreciated.
Thanks a bunch....