Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

    Janet,
    
    How about customising the MAIL SEND function to do something like:
    
    <MAIL EDIT/HEADER
    <MAIL CC "your addess"
    <MAIL SEND
    
    or add a menu option called "Add Self" that does the first two steps.
    
    Completely untested for syntax or logic errors though and it only deals
    with mail you send out - were you asking about incoming mail too?
    
    Regards,
    
    Andrew.D.Wicks

    I just want a copy of everything I send by ALL-IN-1
    to automatically be copied to another machine (actually to
    a VAXmail account on a workstation, where I can keep mail
    for months .vs. having to delete things to meet document
    quotas).
    
    Since I'm not a system manager, can I write a customized
    MAIL SEND function just for myself?  How?
    
    Thanks!
    
    -Janet (DTN 274-6327)

    Janet,
    
    You need to either use CM and be an application programmer or you might
    be able to use the FD subsystem. You'll need copies of forms EMC...EMC3
    and just edit the named data of the one that has SEND on it or whatever
    
    regards,
    
    Andrew.D.Wicks

Janet,

if this is Digital internal, why not solve the problem, and not the
symptoms, by getting you manager to formally request sufficient
quotas for you to perform your job, rather than bowing down to
petty internal restrictions.

This isn't the conference for trying to put right the bean counters,
but sometimes technical fixes don't solve the real problems!

Remember that your VMSmail won't maintain document formatting and
character attributes, can't understand non-ASCII or non-WPS-PLUS
attachments, and is probably going to be backed up less often than
your ALL-IN-1 account!


mb

    OK, OK, if the truth be known, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool
    VAXmail user.
    
    Even if I got my document count expanded to a huge (for our
    systems) number, it still wouldn't solve all the problems that
    are easily solved by automatically sending a copy of my
    outgoing mail to my workstation/VAXmail account.  
    
    I'm alreadying forwarding all incoming mail to VAXmail so I can 
    store it until the disk space on my workstation has run out (and 
    this has been useful on more than one occassion... you may not 
    agree with my reasons or strategy but it works for me).  I have
    a printer in my office attached to my VAXstation, which makes
    printing needed mail messages very convient.  I can extract the
    messages into files and edit them with TPU, which I like.  I can
    search subject lines for strings and quickly get a list of
    messages I'm interested in.  I like VAXmail and the convenience 
    of my workstation environment.
    
    However, I'm finding that many people prefer the A1 format (headers,
    etc.) that VAXmail doesn't provide so I'm using it more than
    I have in the past.  And not having the facility (which
    VAXmail has) of automatic CC (not needed in A1 because of 
    the folder structure, etc.) makes it more difficult to get the
    copies of those messages where I want to have them... on my
    workstation, in my VAXmail account.
    
    I'd be more than willing to write a UDP to copy my OUTBOX
    (or forward the messages or whatever) to VAXmail but I don't
    have the training to do that.  I'd rather solve the problem
    when I'm sending the message initially, via an automatic
    carbon copy.
    
    -j

	Gee, maybe I'm missing something here...it's not automatic, but it 
seems pretty easy...when entering addresses, just put I as an address which 
will send a copy to yourself.  Since your mail is automatically forwarded to 
your workstation, that's where you'll receive it.  Maybe I've missed something, 
but to me it seems like a pretty simple solution...

	(from a pretty simple person)
				Tom