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From: acm@alpha.sunquest.com (Anthony C. McCracken)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Disabling SPAWNing from Mail?
Date: 17 Jun 1996 07:12 MST
Organization: Sunquest Information Systems, Tucson AZ
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In article <009A3723.FAABFF00.3@ccastat.demon.co.uk>, chris@ccagroup.co.uk writes...
>>Has anyone discovered a way of disabling SPAWNing from MAIL in VMS 6.0+, other 
>>than making accounts captive, that is? 

   There's always the old standby of turning off TMPMBX prior to running MAIL.
The side effect is that it also disables SUBMIT and PRINT so the PRINT command
of MAIL will also be disabled.

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