[Info-vax] "SEND MAIL" doesn't send mail, mail stays in queue

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <p4batu$usj$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> >>> Why not receive it on VMS?
> >> 
> >> Sure.
> >> 
> >> If you're willing to post your usernames and passwords to the whole 
> >> Internet.  Because that's what remote mail clients will do, when  
> >> accessing OpenVMS.
> > 
> > If you send an email to me, where is a username or password involved?
> 
> I'll ignore the lack of STARTTLS support here, but that's a whole 
> 'nother issue.
> 
> > Passwords for sending  email to VMS?  I'm confused.
> 
> Mail clients use credentials to access mail servers.   If you decided 
> to hook up that iPad to that OpenVMS server for instance, you'd have to 
> use an insecure connection.

OK.  But if I log into VMS (from a terminal, or in DECwindows, or from 
outside via SSH) and read email with VMS MAIL, there are no passwords 
involved related to mail.  Similarly if someone sends me an email.  Of 
course, if you want to read email stored on VMS with some sort of POP 
client or whatever (with which I have no experience) then that is 
something different.