You can copy a mail message to a file with the EXTRACT command:
EMAIL> READ 4 Message MAIL 4 28-JAN-1993 11:13:21 Date: 28 Jan 1993 11:12:18 -0700 (PDT) From: bob@math.stateu.edu To: faculty@math.stateu.edu Subject: Department meeting - Monday, February 1 Just a reminder that the monthly department meeting is at 3:00 PM next Monday. We still lack another volunteer to help Max out with graduate applications this year. Bob EMAIL> EXTRACT/NOHEADER MEETING.TXTIn the above example, message number 4 is read. Next its content is copied to the file MEETING.TXT. The /NOHEADER qualifier specifies that only the message content (i.e., the text of the message) is to be copied to the file.