PMDF User's Guide
OpenVMS Edition

You can copy a mail message to a file with the EXTRACT command:

EMAIL> READ 4 Message MAIL 4 28-JAN-2012 11:13:21 Date: 28 Jun 2012 11:12:18 -0700 (PDT) From: bob@example.com To: engineering@example.com Subject: Department meeting - Monday, July 1 Just a reminder that the monthly department meeting is at 3:00 PM next Monday. Bob EMAIL> EXTRACT/NOHEADER MEETING.TXT

In the above example, message number 4 is read. Next its content is copied to the file MEETING.TXT. The /NOHEADER qualifier specifies that only the message content (i.e., the text of the message) is to be copied to the file.