Got any documentation for this API?
$ help mail_routines
It's also in the gray (or orange) wall, of course.
Ideally I'd want to somehow "hook" into the MAIL application in the
All I can say is that there's a documented path for doing this - there's
\nothing special about SMTP in this regard. It's called a "foreign transport
protocol" or something like that. You need to write a library with
the appropriate entry points (this is where the documentation comes in
handy), call it FIDO_MAILSHR, and install it. If you do the right
stuff, VMSMAIL will recognize the FIDO%"..." address and call your
library. Couldn't be easier :-)
BOb