mailsymhome

mailsym home

Here you can find the latest version of the VMS mailsym symbiont.

You can create printer queues with this symbiont. Files printed will be mailed to yourself. The idea is that you set forwarding on your mail to your office account.

The printed file will be seen as an attachment.

Some of the features:

• support for binary files
• destination can also be set with logicals or user parameters
• destination can also be set based on filename or filetype
• support for using distribution lists
• optional bodytext can be specified for the mail
• ascii files can be converted to PDF
• support for compression (this is a compile time option)
• etc

In order to use compression you must have installed the ZLIB compression library.

All documentation can be found in the source.

As of augustus 2012 version 2.8 is current. See comments in the source for the changes.

You can find the source here. See build instructions in the source. If you have any trouble building the symbiont just drop me a mail.

Thanks to Phil Smith for letting me use his text2pdf tool. The symbiont uses a modified version, this is included in the source.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

I am planning to use lib$find_image_symbol && lib$callg to link against the zlib library at runtime so no two separate executables have to be maintained. If anybody has succesfully called the zlib routines this way please let me know...