[Info-vax] SMTP chunk sizes

[Rich Jordan]

On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 1:33:54 PM UTC-5, Tom Wade wrote:
> > 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

Tom, there's no budget.  The Alpha is still there and in use because it was available for side jobs after the main apps were retired.  Not eligible for hobbyist use; it is commercial.

When PMDF became available for hobbyists I was already working with Communigate Pro, trying to sell their product (for our clients PMDF was just too expensive).  Sadly Stalker gave up on VMS some years ago.  For my own purposes at home I'm debating between hobbyist PMDF and the latest Communigate Pro for ARM (which can run on a Raspberry Pi...)