SENDVMSMAIL(8)

💌 NAME

okay so bestie, meet sendvmsmail — the mail forwarder for DECnet. that's the whole vibe. it forwards mail. that's it. iconic behavior honestly ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS

sendvmsmail

no flags, no arguments, no drama. she just works. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION

so here's the tea: sendvmsmail is the mail forwarding program that takes your Unix mail messages and sends them over to VMSmail on an OpenVMS(R) System. yes literally that. your Unix mail → VMSmail. the crossover event nobody asked for but everybody needed 🦋

she should be the default destination of the "vmsmail" user. like, that's her job, that's her whole personality, that's her main character energy. 👑

and the usual way to set that up? you make a .forward file in that user's home directory, and inside it you put this exact line:

| /usr/sbin/sendvmsmail

that's it. that's the whole setup. pipe it, point it, done. no cap 🫶

quick heads up bestie: it's /usr/sbin/sendvmsmail — get that path right or she will simply not be sending anything 💀

💖 SEE ALSO

• vmsmaild(8)
• dnetd(8)
• dnetd.conf(5)

go read those too, i'm obsessed with a well-documented DECnet stack 🌈⭐

this lil page came from the DECnet utilities, dated January 15 2001 — yes she's vintage, she's retro, she's been slaying since Y2K and we respect her for it 🎀✨