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8.3.8 Receiving Files

When you receive messages containing files, you can extract them to an external file with the EXTRACT command. Note that the EXTRACT command will, when you are reading a multipart message, extract only the last read message part. To extract several parts to individual files, just read a part, extract it with the EXTRACT command, and then read the next part with the NEXT/PART command. If you want to extract the entire message to a file, use the EXTRACT/ENTIRE command.

See Section 1.1.8 for an example PMDF MAIL session showing how to extract a received file from a message to an external file. Additional examples are given in the documentation of the EXTRACT command.


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