[Info-vax] To MIME or not to MIME

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-08-04 17:20:28 +0000, Arne Vajhj said:

>> I believe I have mentioned Exchange Server and Postfix once or twice, 
>> and I've mentioned that OpenVMS is not capable of running without a 
>> mail server for many of these mail-related tasks with no provisions in 
>> the default installation for sending and receiving mail from a remote 
>> mail server and a mail server that might well be running Exchange 
>> Server or Postfix or OpenSMTPD or various other choices here, and I've 
>> mentioned my preference for Postfix to that of the current TCP/IP 
>> Services Mail Server,
> 
> That I don't agree with.

You don't agree with what?

Is OpenVMS able to operate in the default configuration, without a mail 
server configured and running locally, and with routines such as MAIL$ 
continuing to work for local and remote?

Because somebody or other around here likely uses that MAIL$ API.

Somebody else undoubtedly uses the MAIL command.

I'm sure of it.

> 
> I believe it is much better to just add a mail library to access remote 
> servers.
> 
> For native code.
> 
> Java, Python etc. already have such.

You know, I didn't think I had to mention that.  Wait, I did.  Ah, 
well.  None of that is in the base distro of OpenVMS, and none of that 
allows the more common mail-related operations to work.   As for your 
list of languages, you utterly neglected to mention that both assembler 
and even machine code can be used!   Imagine!  Assembler!  And Machine 
Code!  And you forgot those!  I mean, how DARE you forget that we can 
use organically-sourced artisanal-selected binary bits of the finest 
quality, combined with assembler instructions of architectures past or 
present, and connect — either with home-grown TLS (shudder) or 
cleartext (shudder) or with the OpenSSL (smaller shudder) or some other 
added TLS library (shudder of varying size) — to remote mail servers?  
I mean, the affront!   The horrors!  The omissions!  How could you?  
How could you possibly forget this could be done that way?







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