Nmail, utilities, queued DECnet mail system for use with VMS MAIL SO WHAT'S NMAIL ANYWAY? Nmail works in conjunction with the VMS MAIL utility to implement queued transmission of mail. This allows you to queue up mail to nodes that are currently unreachable, for example, or to transmit long documents without needing to wait until transmission is complete. Nmail requires no special software to be installed at the remote node; it can send to any destination that ordinary MAIL can send to. HOW DO I INSTALL IT? To install, use VMSINSTAL: $ @VMSINSTAL NMAIL100 SYS$UPDATE: The same kit is used for both VAX and Alpha systems. You will be asked a few questions about your configuration. If you don't understand a question, simply enter "?" in response to the prompt. The installation procedure will display some explanatory text and then repeat the question. It is fairly easy to change the configuration at a later date, just by editing the Nmail startup command file. After installing Nmail, you should read the documentation, which is located in the following files: SYS$HELP:NM$SYSMGR.DOC System Manager's manual SYS$HELP:NM$UGUIDE.DOC User Guide HOW DO I BUILD IT FROM SOURCES? Expand the sources saveset into a directory and execute BUILD.COM. On the author's system, this will build the VAX and Alpha images. To do this, it requires the Alpha cross-system tools, which aren't support on VAX VMS V6.1, so some trickery is required to get them working. This trickery is left as an exercise for the reader. Since the author has a VAX, the build procedure probably won't work on an Alpha without modification -- for example, it will expect some non-existent cross compiler so that it can build the VAX images. Once you have actually managed to build the images, use CREAK.COM to create a VMSINSTAL-format kit.