[Info-vax] To MIME or not to MIME

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2018-08-04 kl. 22:16, skrev 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,...

First, I do not think I saw "default" mentioned in your post that
Arne replied to, and second, what is "default" anyway? If you add
some package to a Linux box using the built-in tools, are they
still part of the "default config"?

And what is the problem with having a VMS box taking some "help"
from a proper mail server? And there are other SMTP tools available
that are easy to use and easy to integrate in an application that
might have a need to send out mails with some attached content.
Just as Arne mentioned, of course.

> 
> Ah, well...  you utterly neglected... Imagine! Assembler! And Machine
> Code!... how DARE you... The horrors!  The omissions!  How could you?
> 

Why do you feel you need to behive in such a way? It is kind of sad.