[Info-vax] To MIME or not to MIME

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-08-02 12:35:19 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> On 2018-08-01, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Well, yes, don't use VMS for mail.  Plenty of other platforms in use by 
>>  those who deal with mail.  VMS doesn't do so.  But in many cases this  
>> doesn't distract from the usefullness of VMS.
> 
> I'm amused/sad that in 2018 we still need to have a detailed discussion 
> about how to read MIME messages on VMS.

Mail processing is a common part of operating servers these days, too.

Sending and variously receiving messages.

For both production and for operational uses.

Even OpenVMS dabbles in the use of mail, though usually only to "bring 
you bad news".

And receiving and processing arriving mail messages means parsing 
untrusted data.


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