[Info-vax] To MIME or not to MIME

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/3/2018 12:00 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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.

That is not my impression.

20-30 years ago almost every server was running email.

Today either email for the entire company is done exclusively
via an internal Exchange server or alternatively via a cloud
service.

Of course everybody is using email, but email servers seem
to have become very centralized and very specialized.

Arne