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Appendix H. Mail Conversion from VMS
This process simply automates all the steps of the semi-automatic process.
The fvms2mh script invoked in its simplest form:
% fvms2mh -vms vmsnode
performs the "EXTRACT/ALL" command on each of the VMS mail folders in your MAIL.MAI file in your default mail directory. Each folder is extracted into a separate file on the VMS node. Each file is then copied to the UNIX node and converted into MH format.
Note that vmsnode must be an individual node, not a cluster alias.
If you have other mail files, you'll need to convert them separately. For example, if all of your mail files are in the same (default) mail directory on vmsnode, you can enter the command as:
% fvms2mh -vms vmsnode -file "\*"
We use the UNIX quoting syntax here to pass the asterisk wildcard to VMS so that all mail files are handled.
If your login id on VMS is different from your UNIX id, you'll need to add the -l switch:
% fvms2mh -vms vmsnode -l vms_login_id