PMDF User's Guide Openvms Edition
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PMDF User’s Guide OpenVMS Edition Order Number: V-5305-66-NN-V September 2015 This document describes the OpenVMS user interfaces to Version 6.7 of the PMDF e-mail Interconnect family of products. Revision/Update Information: This manual supersedes the V6.6 PMDF User’s Guide, OpenVMS Edition Software Version: PMDF V6.7 Operating System and Version: OpenVMS VAX V6.1 or later OpenVMS Alpha V7.0 or later OpenVMS I64 V8.2 or later Copyright ©2015 Process Software, LLC. 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Use of PMDF, PMDF-DIRSYNC, PMDF-FAX, PMDF-LAN, PMDF-MR, PMDF-MSGSTORE, PMDF- MTA, PMDF-TLS, PMDF-X400, PMDF-X500, PMDF-XGP, and/or PMDF-XGS software and associated documentation is authorized only by a Software License Agreement. Such license agreements specify the number of systems on which the software is authorized for use, and, among other things, specifically prohibit use or duplication of software or documentation, in whole or in part, except as authorized by the Software License Agreement. Restricted Rights Legend Use, duplication, or disclosure by the government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph (c)(1)(ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS 252.227-7013 or as set forth in the Commercial Computer Software — Restricted Rights clause at FAR 52.227-19. The PMDF mark and all PMDF-based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered AlphaMate is a registered trademark of Motorola, Inc. trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries and are used under license. ALL-IN-1, Alpha AXP, AXP, Bookreader, DEC, DECnet, HP, I64, IA64, Integrity, MAILbus, cc:Mail is a trademark of cc:Mail, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lotus MailWorks, Message Router, MicroVAX, OpenVMS, Pathworks, PSI, RMS, TeamLinks, Development Corporation. Lotus Notes is a registered trademark of Lotus TOPS-20, Tru64, TruCluster, ULTRIX, VAX, VAX Notes, VMScluster, VMS, and WPS- Development Corporation. PLUS are registered trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Company. AS/400, CICS, IBM, Office Vision, OS/2, PROFS, and VTAM are registered trademarks RC2 and RC4 are registered trademarks of RSA Data Security, Inc. of International Business Machines Corporation. CMS, DISOSS, OfficeVision/VM, OfficeVision/400, OV/VM, and TSO are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. dexNET is a registered trademark of Fujitsu Imaging Systems of America, Inc. Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox Corporation. FaxBox is a registered trademark of DCE Communications Group Limited. GIF and ‘‘Graphics Interchange Format’’ are trademarks of CompuServe, Incorporated. InterConnections is a trademark of InterConnections, Inc. InterDrive is a registered trademark of FTP Software, Inc. LANmanager and Microsoft are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Memo is a trade mark of Verimation ApS. MHS, Netware, and Novell are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. LaserJet and PCL are registered trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Company. PGP and Pretty Good Privacy are registered trademarks of Pretty Good Privacy, Inc. Jnet is a registered trademark of Wingra, Inc. Attachmate is a registered trademark and PathWay is a trademark of Attachmate Pine and Pico are trademarks of the University of Washington, used by Corporation. permission. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Solaris, Sun, and SunOS are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. SPARC is a trademark of SPARC International, Inc. TCPware and MultiNet are registered trademarks of Process Software. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. TIFF is a trademark of Aldus Corporation. Gold-Mail is a trademark of Data Processing Design, Inc. Copyright (c) 1990-2000 Sleepycat Software. All rights reserved. libedit/editline is Copyright (c) 1992, 1993, The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Contents PREFACE xi CHAPTER 1 SENDING MAIL MESSAGES 1–1 1.1 SENDING MAIL WITH VMS MAIL 1–1 1.1.1 Quote Character Substitutions 1–2 1.1.2 Sending Messages From DCL 1–3 1.1.3 Sending Messages From Remote DECnet Nodes 1–3 1.1.4 Sending Messages From Pathworks MAIL Agents 1–4 1.1.5 Sending Messages From Callable MAIL 1–4 1.1.6 Adding a Signature to Outgoing Messages 1–4 1.1.7 Forwarding Mail 1–5 1.1.8 Sending and Receiving Binary Files 1–6 1.1.9 Header Lines in Messages 1–8 1.1.9.1 Date: Header Lines • 1–8 1.1.9.2 Priority: Header Lines • 1–8 1.1.9.3 Additional Header Line Prompts in VMS MAIL • 1–10 1.1.9.4 User Defined Header Lines • 1–10 1.1.10 Delivery and Read Receipts 1–11 1.2 SENDING MESSAGES WITH ALL-IN-1 AND A1MAIL 1–12 1.3 SENDING X.400 MAIL 1–13 1.4 SENDING FAXES 1–15 1.4.1 Pop-Up Addressing Form 1–16 1.4.2 FAX Addressing Formats 1–17 1.4.3 Sample FAX Addresses 1–18 1.4.4 Default FAX Attributes 1–18 1.4.5 Altering the Page Layout 1–19 1.5 ACCESSING CCSO, PH, QI, & GOPHER DIRECTORIES 1–19 1.5.1 Invoking the Form 1–20 1.5.2 Looking Up Addresses 1–20 1.5.3 Changing Your Directory Entry 1–20 1.6 ACCESSING LDAP OR X.500 DIRECTORIES 1–21 1.6.1 Invoking the Form 1–21 1.6.2 Operation of the LDAP/X.500 Pop-Up Form 1–21 1.6.3 Changing Your Directory Entry 1–22 1.6.4 Running the Terminal-Based Form as a Standalone Application 1–22 CHAPTER 2 RECEIVING MAIL MESSAGES 2–1 2.1 RECEIVING MAIL IN VMS MAIL 2–1 2.1.1 Receiving Binary Files 2–1 2.1.2 Header Lines in Received Messages 2–1 2.2 RECEIVING MESSAGES WITH ALL-IN-1 AND A1MAIL 2–3 2.3 SUBADDRESSES 2–3 iii Contents CHAPTER 3 MESSAGE FILTERING, MESSAGE FORWARDING, AND VACATION NOTICES 3–1 3.1 MAILBOX FILTER FILE 3–1 3.1.1 Checking Your Changes 3–1 3.2 WEB INTERFACE 3–2 3.2.1 Web Interface Features 3–2 3.2.2 Example Web Page Displays 3–3 CHAPTER 4 PASSWORD CHANGE UTILITY 4–1 CHAPTER 5 THE DELIVER MESSAGE DELIVERY SYSTEM 5–1 5.1 SETTING UP DELIVER 5–1 5.2 MAIL.DELIVERY FILE FORMAT 5–2 5.2.1 Directive Applicability 5–2 5.2.2 Actions 5–4 5.2.3 Example 5–9 5.2.4 Summary of Directives and Actions 5–10 5.3 OPERATION 5–11 5.4 SUBADDRESSES 5–12 5.5 LIMITATIONS 5–13 CHAPTER 6 MAIL SERVER COMMANDS 6–1 6.1 SENDING COMMANDS TO THE SERVER 6–1 6.2 AVAILABLE COMMANDS 6–3 CONFIRM 6–4 DIRECTORY 6–5 DIRECTORY/LIST 6–6 ENCODING 6–7 END 6–9 HELP 6–10 INDEX 6–11 LISTS 6–12 MAXIMUM 6–13 MODE 6–15 PURGE/LIST 6–17 SEND 6–19 SEND/LIST 6–22 SUBSCRIBE 6–24 UNSUBSCRIBE 6–27 CHAPTER 7 PINE USER AGENT 7–1 7.1 RUNNING PINE 7–1 7.1.1 Function Key Mode 7–2 7.2 PINE CONCEPTS 7–2 7.3 PINE CONFIGURATION FILES 7–3 iv Contents 7.3.1 The Pine Resource File 7–3 7.3.2 The Pine Address Book 7–4 7.3.2.1 Pine Address Books and the PMDF Personal Alias Database • 7–4 7.3.3 Pine News Groups File 7–5 7.3.4 Mailcap Files 7–5 7.4 FOLDERS AND FOLDER COLLECTIONS 7–5 7.4.1 Folders 7–6 7.4.1.1 Folder Name Case-Sensitivity • 7–6 7.4.1.2 Newly Created Folders and Placeholder Messages • 7–6 7.4.2 Folder Collections 7–6 7.4.2.1 folder-collection Option Syntax • 7–6 7.4.2.1.1 Example folder-collections Option Setting • 7–8 7.4.2.2 Saving Messages in Folder Collections • 7–8 7.5 OpenVMS-SPECIFIC ISSUES 7–8 7.5.1 The Expunge Command 7–8 7.5.2 Checking for New Mail 7–9 7.5.3 The VMS MAIL Profile 7–9 7.6 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS IN THE PINE RESOURCE FILE 7–10 7.6.1 Format of the Pine Resource File 7–10 7.6.2 Available Configuration Options 7–10 7.7 OpenVMS SYSTEM CONFIGURATION FOR PMDF PINE 7–32 7.7.1 Providing UCX Emulation 7–32 7.7.2 Users’ Subprocess Quota 7–33 7.7.3 System-Wide Configuration Files 7–33 7.7.3.1 Precedence of Configuration Settings • 7–34 CHAPTER 8 THE PMDF MAIL UTILITY 8–1 8.1 GETTING STARTED 8–1 8.2 NEW MAIL NOTIFICATION 8–2 8.3 READING MAIL 8–2 8.3.1 New Messages 8–2 8.3.2 Old Messages 8–3 8.3.3 Selecting Which Header Lines to Display 8–4 8.3.4 Reading Multipart Messages 8–5 8.3.5 Mailcap Files 8–6 8.3.6 Reading Messages With Control Characters 8–7 8.3.7 Copying Messages to External Files 8–8 8.3.8 Receiving Files 8–8 8.4 SENDING MAIL 8–8 8.4.1 Sending Messages From DCL 8–9 8.4.2 Sending Messages From Within PMDF MAIL 8–9 8.4.3 Sending a File 8–10 8.4.4 Sending Messages to Mailing Lists 8–11 8.5 DELETING MAIL 8–11 8.6 ORGANIZING YOUR MAIL 8–12 8.6.1 Creating and Modifying Folders 8–13 v Contents 8.6.2 Selecting Folders 8–14 8.6.3 Deleting Folders 8–15 8.7 PROTECTION OF MAIL FILES 8–16 8.8 PLACING YOUR MAIL FILES IN A SUBDIRECTORY 8–16 8.9 EDITING OPERATIONS 8–16 8.9.1 Selecting an Editor 8–17 8.9.1.1 The SET EDITOR Command • 8–17 8.9.1.2 The MAIL$EDIT Logical • 8–18 8.9.2 Controlling Editor Operations 8–18 8.9.3 Using a ‘‘Kept’’ Editor 8–20 8.10 USING A KEYPAD 8–22 8.11 INITIALIZATION FILES 8–23 8.12 PMDF MAIL AND SYSTEM MANAGEMENT 8–23 8.13 NOTABLE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PMDF AND VMS MAIL 8–24