PMDF User's Guide
OpenVMS Edition
PMDF-USR-VMS-6.0

Contents (summary)

• Preface
• Chapter 1 Sending mail messages
• Chapter 2 Receiving mail messages
• Chapter 3 Filtering and rejecting messages
• Chapter 4 The DELIVER Message Delivery System
• Chapter 5 Mail server commands
• Chapter 6 Pine User Agent
• Chapter 7 The PMDF MAIL Utility
• Chapter 8 Utilities
• Chapter 9 Notes for POP and IMAP clients
• Index
• Figures
• Examples
• Tables

Contents

• Preface

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  Chapter 1 Sending mail messages
  • 1.1 Sending mail with VMS MAIL
    • 1.1.1 Quote character substitutions
    • 1.1.2 Sending messages from DCL
    • 1.1.3 Sending messages from remote DECnet nodes
    • 1.1.4 Sending messages from Pathworks MAIL agents
    • 1.1.5 Sending messages from callable MAIL
    • 1.1.6 Adding a signature to outgoing messages
    • 1.1.7 Forwarding mail
    • 1.1.8 Sending and receiving binary files
    • 1.1.9 Header lines in messages
      • 1.1.9.1 Date: header lines
      • 1.1.9.2 Priority: header lines
      • 1.1.9.3 Additional header line prompts in VMS MAIL
      • 1.1.9.4 User defined header lines
    • 1.1.10 Delivery and read receipts
  • 1.2 Sending messages with ALL-IN-1 and A1MAIL
  • 1.3 Sending X.400 mail
  • 1.4 Sending FAXes
    • 1.4.1 Pop-up addressing form
    • 1.4.2 FAX addressing formats
    • 1.4.3 Sample FAX addresses
    • 1.4.4 Default FAX attributes
    • 1.4.5 Altering the page layout
  • 1.5 Accessing CCSO, ph, qi, & gopher directories
    • 1.5.1 Invoking the form
    • 1.5.2 Looking up addresses
    • 1.5.3 Changing your directory entry
  • 1.6 Accessing LDAP or X.500 directories
    • 1.6.1 Invoking the form
    • 1.6.2 Operation of the LDAP/X.500 pop-up form
    • 1.6.3 Changing your directory entry
    • 1.6.4 Running the terminal-based form as a standalone application

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  Chapter 2 Receiving mail messages
  • 2.1 Receiving mail in VMS MAIL
    • 2.1.1 Receiving binary files
    • 2.1.2 Header lines in received messages
  • 2.2 Receiving messages with ALL-IN-1 and A1MAIL
  • 2.3 Subaddresses

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  Chapter 3 Filtering and rejecting messages
  • 3.1 Web interface
    • 3.1.1 Example web page displays

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  Chapter 4 The DELIVER Message Delivery System
  • 4.1 Setting up DELIVER
  • 4.2 MAIL.DELIVERY file format
    • 4.2.1 Directive applicability
    • 4.2.2 Actions
    • 4.2.3 Summary of directives and actions
  • 4.3 Operation
  • 4.4 Subaddresses
  • 4.5 Limitations

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  Chapter 5 Mail server commands
  • 5.1 Sending commands to the server
  • 5.2 Available commands
  • Command 1 CONFIRM
  • Command 2 DIRECTORY
  • Command 3 DIRECTORY/LIST
  • Command 4 ENCODING
  • Command 5 END
  • Command 6 HELP
  • Command 7 INDEX
  • Command 8 LISTS
  • Command 9 MAXIMUM
  • Command 10 MODE
  • Command 11 PURGE/LIST
  • Command 12 SEND
  • Command 13 SEND/LIST
  • Command 14 SUBSCRIBE
  • Command 15 UNSUBSCRIBE

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  Chapter 6 Pine User Agent
  • 6.1 Running Pine
    • 6.1.1 Function key mode
  • 6.2 Pine concepts
  • 6.3 Pine configuration files
    • 6.3.1 The Pine resource file
    • 6.3.2 The Pine address book
      • 6.3.2.1 Pine address books and the PMDF personal alias database
    • 6.3.3 Pine news groups file
    • 6.3.4 Mailcap files
  • 6.4 Folders and folder collections
    • 6.4.1 Folders
      • 6.4.1.1 Folder name case-sensitivity
      • 6.4.1.2 Newly created folders and placeholder messages
    • 6.4.2 Folder collections
      • 6.4.2.1 folder-collection option syntax
        • 6.4.2.1.1 Example folder-collections option setting
      • 6.4.2.2 Saving messages in folder collections
  • 6.5 OpenVMS-specific issues
    • 6.5.1 The Expunge command
    • 6.5.2 Checking for new mail
    • 6.5.3 The VMS MAIL profile
  • 6.6 Configuration options in the Pine resource file
    • 6.6.1 Format of the Pine resource file
    • 6.6.2 Available configuration options
  • 6.7 OpenVMS system configuration for PMDF Pine
    • 6.7.1 Providing UCX emulation
    • 6.7.2 Users' subprocess quota
    • 6.7.3 System-wide configuration files
      • 6.7.3.1 Precedence of configuration settings

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  Chapter 7 The PMDF MAIL Utility
  • 7.1 Getting started
  • 7.2 New mail notification
  • 7.3 Reading Mail
    • 7.3.1 New Messages
    • 7.3.2 Old Messages
    • 7.3.3 Selecting which header lines to display
    • 7.3.4 Reading multipart messages
    • 7.3.5 Mailcap files
    • 7.3.6 Copying messages to external files
    • 7.3.7 Receiving files
  • 7.4 Sending mail
    • 7.4.1 Sending messages from DCL
    • 7.4.2 Sending messages from within PMDF MAIL
    • 7.4.3 Sending a file
    • 7.4.4 Sending messages to mailing lists
  • 7.5 Deleting mail
  • 7.6 Organizing your mail
    • 7.6.1 Creating and modifying folders
    • 7.6.2 Selecting folders
    • 7.6.3 Deleting folders
  • 7.7 Protection of mail files
  • 7.8 Placing your mail files in a subdirectory
  • 7.9 Editing operations
    • 7.9.1 Selecting an editor
      • 7.9.1.1 The SET EDITOR command
      • 7.9.1.2 The MAIL$EDIT logical
    • 7.9.2 Controlling editor operations
    • 7.9.3 Using a "kept" editor
  • 7.10 Using a keypad
  • 7.11 Initialization files
  • 7.12 PMDF MAIL and system management
  • 7.13 Notable differences between PMDF and VMS MAIL
  • 7.14 Command descriptions
  • Command 16 PMDF MAIL
  • Command 17 ALIAS ADD
  • Command 18 ALIAS CLOSE
  • Command 19 ALIAS COPY
  • Command 20 ALIAS DELETE
  • Command 21 ALIAS MODIFY
  • Command 22 ALIAS OPEN
  • Command 23 ALIAS OVERRIDE
  • Command 24 ALIAS REMOVE
  • Command 25 ALIAS RENAME
  • Command 26 ALIAS SET
  • Command 27 ALIAS SHOW
  • Command 28 ANSWER
  • Command 29 APROPOS
  • Command 30 ATTACH
  • Command 31 BACK
  • Command 32 COMPRESS
  • Command 33 COPY
  • Command 34 CURRENT
  • Command 35 DEFINE
  • Command 36 DELETE
  • Command 37 DIRECTORY
  • Command 38 DIRECTORY/FOLDER
  • Command 39 EDIT
  • Command 40 ERASE
  • Command 41 EXIT
  • Command 42 EXTRACT
  • Command 43 FILE
  • Command 44 FIRST
  • Command 45 FORWARD
  • Command 46 HELP
  • Command 47 LAST
  • Command 48 MAIL
  • Command 49 MARK
  • Command 50 MOVE
  • Command 51 NEXT
  • Command 52 PLAY
  • Command 53 PRINT
  • Command 54 PURGE
  • Command 55 QUIT
  • Command 56 READ
  • Command 57 RECORD
  • Command 58 REDISTRIBUTE
  • Command 59 REMOVE
  • Command 60 REPLY
  • Command 61 RESEND
  • Command 62 SEARCH
  • Command 63 SELECT
  • Command 64 SEND
  • Command 65 SET/LOG
  • Command 66 SET/UIC & SHOW/UIC
  • Command 67 SET/USER & SHOW/USER
  • Command 68 SHOW/ALL
  • Command 69 SET & SHOW APPLICATION_COMMAND
  • Command 70 SET & SHOW APPLICATION_PROMPT
  • Command 71 SET & SHOW APPLICATION_WAIT
  • Command 72 SET & SHOW AUDIO_COMMAND
  • Command 73 SET & SHOW AUDIO_DEVICE
  • Command 74 SET & SHOW AUDIO_PROMPT
  • Command 75 SET & SHOW AUDIO_WAIT
  • Command 76 SET & SHOW AUTO_NEWMAIL
  • Command 77 SET & SHOW AUTO_PURGE
  • Command 78 SET & SHOW CC_PROMPT
  • Command 79 SET & SHOW CONTROL_CHARS
  • Command 80 SET & SHOW COPY_SELF
  • Command 81 SET & SHOW DATE_FORMAT
  • Command 82 SET & SHOW DIRECTORY_FORMAT
  • Command 83 SET & SHOW EDITOR
  • Command 84 SET & SHOW ERASE_SCREEN
  • Command 85 SET & SHOW EXTRACT_QUOTE
  • Command 86 SET & SHOW FILE
  • Command 87 SET & SHOW FOLDER
  • Command 88 SET & SHOW FORM
  • Command 89 SET & SHOW FORWARD
  • Command 90 SET & SHOW HEADER_TRIMMING
  • Command 91 SET & SHOW IMAGE_COMMAND
  • Command 92 SET & SHOW IMAGE_PROMPT
  • Command 93 SET & SHOW IMAGE_WAIT
  • Command 94 SET & SHOW MAIL_DIRECTORY
  • Command 95 SET & SHOW NEW_MAIL_COUNT
  • Command 96 SET & SHOW PERSONAL_NAME
  • Command 97 SET & SHOW QUEUE
  • Command 98 SET & SHOW SIGNATURE
  • Command 99 SET & SHOW SOUND_LEVEL
  • Command 100 SET & SHOW SPEAKER
  • Command 101 SET USERNAME
  • Command 102 SET & SHOW VIDEO_COMMAND
  • Command 103 SET & SHOW VIDEO_PROMPT
  • Command 104 SET & SHOW VIDEO_WAIT
  • Command 105 SET & SHOW WASTEBASKET_NAME
  • Command 106 SHOW ALL
  • Command 107 SHOW DELETED
  • Command 108 SHOW VERSION
  • Command 109 SPAWN
  • Command 110 UNMARK

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  Chapter 8 Utilities
  • 8.1 DCL command line utilities
  • Command 111 DECODE
  • Command 112 ENCODE
  • Command 113 FOLDER
  • Command 114 FORWARD
  • Command 115 migrate
  • Command 116 PASSWORD
  • Command 117 PS
  • Command 118 PSWRAP
  • Command 119 SEND
  • 8.2 QM: Manipulate your queued messages
    • 8.2.1 Available user mode commands
  • Command 120 DATE
  • Command 121 DIRECTORY
  • Command 122 EDIT_FAX
  • Command 123 EXIT
  • Command 124 HELP
  • Command 125 HISTORY
  • Command 126 QUIT
  • Command 127 READ
  • Command 128 RETURN
  • Command 129 SPAWN
  • 8.3 DB: Personal alias database utility
    • 8.3.1 Aliases
    • 8.3.2 Public aliases
    • 8.3.3 Mailing lists
    • 8.3.4 Advanced mailing lists
      • 8.3.4.1 Named parameters
      • 8.3.4.2 Positional parameters
      • 8.3.4.3 Examples
      • 8.3.4.4 Length restriction on list definitions
    • 8.3.5 Subaddresses
    • 8.3.6 Operation of DB
    • 8.3.7 Commands
      • 8.3.7.1 add
      • 8.3.7.2 close
      • 8.3.7.3 copy
      • 8.3.7.4 exit-program
      • 8.3.7.5 fax-mode
        • 8.3.7.5.1 add (FAX mode)
        • 8.3.7.5.2 modify (FAX mode)
      • 8.3.7.6 modify
      • 8.3.7.7 open
      • 8.3.7.8 override
      • 8.3.7.9 quit-program
      • 8.3.7.10 remove
      • 8.3.7.11 rename
      • 8.3.7.12 set
      • 8.3.7.13 show
      • 8.3.7.14 wildcards
      • 8.3.7.15 write

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  Chapter 9 Notes for POP and IMAP clients
  • 9.1 The PMDF PASSWORD utility: enabling authentication (login) mechanisms
  • 9.2 Notes on IMAP access to the VMS MAIL mailbox
    • 9.2.1 Folders
    • 9.2.2 UID support for the VMS MAIL message store
  • 9.3 Subaddresses/folders in MessageStore addresses
  • 9.4 POP notes
    • 9.4.1 Folders
    • 9.4.2 Reading and deleting messages in the VMS MAIL mailbox
    • 9.4.3 Eudora's password changing command

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  Index

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  Examples
  • 5-1 Sending commands to a mail server
  • 7-1 Example Mailcap entries
  • 8-1 Sample mailing list: the mailing list file
  • 8-2 Sample mailing list: declaring the alias

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  Figures
  • 1-1 Saving a FAX address with the pop-up addressing form
  • 3-1 Mailbox filter home page
  • 3-2 Selecting the Discard From filter from the mailbox filter homepage
  • 3-3 Discard From filter
  • 3-4 Excerpt of the Discard From filter help page
  • 7-1 PMDF MAIL keypad definitions

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  Tables
  • 1-1 Foreign protocol address mapping
  • 1-2 Header lines controlled via logical name definitions
  • 1-3 X.400 attribute names recognized by PMDF-X400
  • 1-4 RFC 2156 printablestring character substitutions ORname in fields
  • 1-5 PMDF-FAX addressing attributes
  • 4-1 DCL symbols available to DELIVER command files
  • 4-2 Summary of DELIVER directive applicability
  • 4-3 Summary of DELIVER actions
  • 5-1 Summary of Mail and list server commands
  • 6-1 Available Pinefeature-listfeatures
  • 7-1 PMDF_SYSTEM_FLAGS logical
  • 8-1 Font names recognized by the PS utility
  • 8-2 Form names recognized by the PS utility
  • 8-3 Summary of PMDF QM user mode commands