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MailService =========== by Eric Celeste (AppTech) version 1.0 released on 28 January 1991 This application is free to all. Source code should be available on the major ftp archive sites. Nothing about it is guaranteed, but I do use it on my own machine, so I believe it works! Enjoy. MailService is designed to make it easy for folks reading mail with the Terminal application (probably because they've dialed somewhere with a modem) to incorporate that mail into their NeXT Mailbox. This is achieved through a service added to the Mail submenu of the Services menu. To send a message which you see in the terminal window to your own active mailbox (in the NeXT Mail sense of the term), you simply need to select the message and choose "Send As A Message" from the "Mail" submenu of the "Services" menu. I recommend that you select the message including its headers so that you can later tell who the message came from and when it was sent. If the message includes a NeXT attachment (in other words, it looks like gobbledygook in the terminal window), select it and send it anyway Ð the NeXT Mail application will correctly interpret the attachment and in most cases you will be able to read and use the results. MailService can be used from any application which has a Services menu and lets you select text. This means you can automatically send messages from WriteNow and Edit, in addition to Terminal. If you want the messages sent by MailService to go to someone other than yourself, just change the user name in the MailService window. Any subsequent messages sent by MailService will go to the user listed in that window. There are two additional sections to this readme file, the first describes how to install this application and the second describes what went into writing it and offers some hints about writing services.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.