[Info-vax] SMTP chunk sizes

[Tom Wade]

> What the Microsoft folks are referring to is ESMTP (EHLO and all), a
> barrage of RFCs that have been around since ~1995.  AFAIK, VMS with
> TCP/IP Services knows not of ESMTP, which means no transport-level
> security, no chunking, no authenticated SMTP, no UTF-8, etc.   You could
> ask for this enhancement from HP, but I'd suspect it'd only be VSI that
> might eventually provide it.   This unless somebody ports over OpenSMTPD
> or some similar software, or gets the Lamson Python mail server
> working.  There's also the potential to switch over to one of the
> Process IP stacks.

If you want to process mail properly on OpenVMS, you need PMDF.

PMDF supports ESMTP, MIME etc. For commercial use it's not free,  but as 
far as I know it is available under the hobbyist program.  Check out 
www.process.com.

Tom Wade