missdelatorre
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I am a consultant working on a computer fraud case involving the Vines operating system. Does anyone know 1)the name of the e-mail application for that system and/or 2) how the e-mail is stored. Thanks!
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Information Regarding Vines e-mail system needed.
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We are using Beyondmail 3.5.<br>I had the occasion to attempt recovering (successfully) mail from a crashed drive. The messages are stored on the user's hard drive (usually C
as such C:\BMAIL\INBOX\OWNER\TEMP. Each of the files is a message or an attachment. The messages do not have an extention, but if you treat them as an RTF file, MS Word converts them without problem.<br>Hope this helps.<br><br>Dan Simkins<br>GTE-NW <br>Specialist Field Support<br>Network Reliability<br><A HREF="mailto:dan.simkins@telops.gte.com">dan.simkins@telops.gte.com</A>
as such C:\BMAIL\INBOX\OWNER\TEMP. Each of the files is a message or an attachment. The messages do not have an extention, but if you treat them as an RTF file, MS Word converts them without problem.<br>Hope this helps.<br><br>Dan Simkins<br>GTE-NW <br>Specialist Field Support<br>Network Reliability<br><A HREF="mailto:dan.simkins@telops.gte.com">dan.simkins@telops.gte.com</A> People still use Banyan VINES!
Anywho, I was a network admin and we used VINES 5.54(20) then made it up to 6.3. Can't say that I remember exactly how the mail was stored or the exact options that I used to get into it from the server's console. If it helps any Beyond Mail was the 3rd party app used to give users a GUI. I'll always remember the VINES mail as being "blue mail" because of the default blue screen from dos. It was always envoked by using the mail.exe from the (Z: drive) VINES shared drive w/ all the user commands.
It wasn't too difficult (if you had the maint password) to get into the OS and read any user's email messages. It was even possible to save their attachments to one of the shared drives. This was not something that involved beyond mail.
I also remember we had a "program" floating around that someone created called "name.exe" that allowed you to change your login name to whatever you wanted (user@group@org) However it only fooled the chat.exe and send.exe programs, if you changed your name to another valid user you couldnt see their messages or send email from that name.
Well, this was just my two cents. I really enjoyed working with VINES when I had the chance, hope this helps an any way!
Anywho, I was a network admin and we used VINES 5.54(20) then made it up to 6.3. Can't say that I remember exactly how the mail was stored or the exact options that I used to get into it from the server's console. If it helps any Beyond Mail was the 3rd party app used to give users a GUI. I'll always remember the VINES mail as being "blue mail" because of the default blue screen from dos. It was always envoked by using the mail.exe from the (Z: drive) VINES shared drive w/ all the user commands.
It wasn't too difficult (if you had the maint password) to get into the OS and read any user's email messages. It was even possible to save their attachments to one of the shared drives. This was not something that involved beyond mail.
I also remember we had a "program" floating around that someone created called "name.exe" that allowed you to change your login name to whatever you wanted (user@group@org) However it only fooled the chat.exe and send.exe programs, if you changed your name to another valid user you couldnt see their messages or send email from that name.
Well, this was just my two cents. I really enjoyed working with VINES when I had the chance, hope this helps an any way!
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