>You're right (I'm not much of a VAX person).  Apparently the command that
>is being used is the REPLY/EXTRACT subcommand of the VMS "MAIL" command.
>According to my co-workers that support our VAX's, there is no option to
>keep the headers from being included.  You can only edit them out manually.
>
>* Taryn L. Westergaard           (602)621-2996
>* BITNET: taryn@arizvm1          INTERNET: [log in to unmask]
 
So Eric's comments should be changed to 'tell the user not to do that'.
REPLY/EXTRACT puts you into the editor anyway so they (your users) should
know how to remove the unneeded 822 headers.  Since VMS mail only has a
few header fields that correspond to 822 headers, the 'real' 822 headers
are just part of the message body as far as it (vms mail) is concerned.
BTW - I'm using reply/extract to do this, and stick the little >s in
front of your stuff etc (including removing the 822 headers :-) ).
 
Mark