Obtaining SAS Notes Through Email

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All of the SAS Notes can be searched and retrieved by E-mail, using the SAS Notes E-mail server. Over 17,000 SAS Notes are available.

A mail server is a program that allows you to retrieve data from a remote computer via electronic mail. You send requests to the server in an E-mail message and it sends you an E-mail message in response.

This E-mail server permits you to always have access to the most current SAS Notes. All you need is access to E-mail via the Internet.

The approach for using the mail server is fairly easy.


You send an E-mail message to our mail server with a search request.
The mail server receives your request and sends you a return mail message with a list of SAS Note reference numbers and descriptions of SAS Notes that satisfy your request.

You receive the response message and review the list of hits, checking SAS Note descriptions and searching for SAS Notes that look promising.
You send a mail message to the E-mail server, specifying a list of SAS Note reference numbers for Notes to be retrieved. Then, the mail server processes the request and sends the complete text of the SAS Notes that you requested.

The SEARCH command is used to perform searches. The following request could be specified, to get a list of SAS Notes that contain the keyword "TABULATE":

   SEARCH TABULATE

Multiple keywords can also be specified on a SEARCH request. Wildcard searches are also permitted. In the following example, both keywords PRINT and UNIFORM must be present in a SAS Note in order for it to be selected.

   SEARCH PRINT UNIFORM

The GET command is used to retrieve SAS Notes. You can specify multiple SAS Note reference numbers on a GET command.

The following GET command will retrieve SAS Notes with reference numbers 7744 and 8197. These correspond to SAS Notes with official names of V6-COPY-7744 and V6-ASSIST-8197.

  GET 7744 8197

The following example accesses the Version 6 SAS Notes database. Two separate searches are performed and two SAS Notes are retrieved.

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  SEARCH XPORT
  SEARCH PROC CHART
  GET 8562 6981

For a complete list of instructions on using the SAS Notes E-mail server, please send mail to:

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On the first line of the message specify the following text:
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shiyiming

in your poster "You send an E-mail message to our mail server with a search request."

what is mail server, could u give me more details about this? I am a little confused  <!-- s:oops: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_redface.gif" alt=":oops:" title="Embarassed" /><!-- s:oops: -->