[Info-vax] To MIME or not to MIME

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/4/2018 8:56 AM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <pk2jlv$bhn$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> 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.
> 
> I have clients still doing mail on VMS.  Invoices are emailed from
> VMS as either PDF or Excel spreadsheets in attachments -- both, of
> which, are produced on VMS.  Of course, the VMS MIME utility is not
> a part of any of that.  One of the clients services a LARGE segment
> of the aerospace industry.

I am still not convinced that the scenario of running local mail server
is common.

Sending out email is, but that can be done using a remote mail server.

Arne