VMS Help MAIL Routines, MAIL$MAILFILE_OPEN, Arguments  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

 context

    OpenVMS usage:context
    type:         longword (unsigned)
    access:       modify
    mechanism:    by reference
    Mail file context information to be passed to mail file routines.
    The context argument is the address of a longword that contains
    mail file context information returned by MAIL$MAILFILE_BEGIN.

 in_item_list

    OpenVMS usage:itmlst_3
    type:         longword (unsigned)
    access:       read only
    mechanism:    by reference
    Item list specifying options for the routine. The in_item_list
    argument is the address of a list of item descriptors, each of
    which specifies an option and provides the information needed to
    perform the operation.

    The item list is terminated by longword value of 0.