Yes, and of course I could use a BBS program designed to actually do this properly as well (which in fact I do). Also, I've never configured Sendmail but I've heard of the horror stories involved. But I guess it could be fun. Anyway, a hacked VMS MAIL that can send Fidonet netmail would be kinda cool in its own right, sort of doing it for the sake of it :) Come on, HECnet absolutely NEEDS a Fidonet gateway! :-P Bob: Do you happen to have a pointer to that VMS MAIL API documentation? On 1 Jul 2009, at 17:56, Paul Koning wrote: Coulnd't you use Sendmail to do this? It seems to have all the necessary gateway machinery. It probably doesn't run on VMS but it would on Ultrix, so that could be the gateway to the Mail11 protocol. paul -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Sampsa Laine Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:53 PM To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] Zaphod down for a few days Got any documentation for this API? Ideally I'd want to somehow "hook" into the MAIL application in the same way as TCP/IP does, i.e. to send an smtp message you prepend SMTP % to the recipient, I would love to be able to use an address like: FIDO%"John Q Public at 1:123/4.5" How painful would this be to do (the hooking into the MAIL part and parsing, I'll worry about the Fidonet encodings etc myself)? Sampsa On 1 Jul 2009, at 16:35, Bob Armstrong wrote: How easy is it to get mail in and out of VMS mail using say DCL? Sending is pretty easy, but reading it would require you to do some parsing (which, of course, can be done). But there is an API for VMS mail and it'd be easier to write a program to do it instead (unless you really want to prove that you can do it in DCL)... Bob