[Info-vax] A POP oddity, moves messages to MAIL without reading them

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply wrote:
> In article <mycsm.11650$U5.154493 at newsb.telia.net>,
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan-Erik_S=F6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
> writes: 
> 
>> JF Mezei wrote:
>>
>>> Mail services will be the first thing coming off VMS when
>>> I get a new server in the coming months/weeks.
>> Of course.
>> Maybe aprox 10 years to late, but probably the right
>> decision anyway. There are many far better platforms
>> for normal day-to-day mail handling. Easiest is to
>> let your ISP run your mails, it's usualy included in
>> your Internat access anyway. Running your own mail
>> server "at home" could be fun, but hardly needed.
> 
> For me, VMS MAIL and running an SMTP server at home are near the top of 
> my list of priorities.
> 

It might be an interesting project but, for most it is not a necessity. 
  My ISP does the post office thing adequately.