From:	SMTP%"RELAY-INFO-VAX@CRVAX.SRI.COM" 23-SEP-1993 17:08:47.55
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Subj:	RE: Problems with callable MAIL.

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 13:04:29 PDT
From: powers@elros.stg.trw.com
To: rfalanga@tiguex.cs.unm.edu
Cc: info-vax@sri.com
Message-Id: <00972bac.d00273e0.5378@elros.stg.trw.com>
Subject: RE: Problems with callable MAIL.

Rod Falanga (rfalanga@unmvax.cs.unm.edu):
>	A while ago I wrote a VAX C callable VMS MAIL routine.  It has worked
> fine, up until recently.  Now, I have found that it stack dumps on the called
> to MAIL$_SEND_MESSAGE [...]

Sounds like what you need is "example code."  There are two that I have.
One is called "Visual Mail" and the other is "S-Mail."  Of the two, S-Mail
is simpler, and Visual Mail is very spiffy, though in need of work to get it
to function from my Mac 'n' modem at home (it requires some keyboard keys
that my Mac 'n' modem simply don't have).  Anyway, awhile ago, Visual Mail
was available by anon FTP from:

             csvax1.ucc.ie in the directory [.VMS]  -or-
             ftp.spc.edu in the directory [.MAILUTILS]

Try the Ireland site first -- fewer problems with that one.

You might also look by anon FTP at cerritos.edu/black.cerritos.edu/
white.cerritos.edu for the possibility of finding both Visual Mail and also
S-Mail -- Cerritos is a vmsnet.sources archive site.

There was a fatal flaw in the original Visual Mail program -- you couldn't
"quit" if you changed your mind about sending a message.  I can send you the
program author's fix for that if it isn't included in the anon FTP version
above.  I haven't heard from the Visual Mail program's author in months,
by the way.  I think I was too enthusiastic about his work, and I think I
offended him.  Oh well.  Sigh.  He really did do a very nice job of
craftsmanship with the software.  Very nice.  The keyboard fixes would be
easy to do, but with a program of this size, it would be better for the
program's father to look after safety pins like that.  Oh well.  Sigh.

     Lester Powers
     powers@elros.stg.trw.com