[Info-vax] REPLY/ALL in VMS Mail client ?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <00B6D447.2B7F0A3B at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman- 
@SendSpamHere.ORG writes: 

> I too do most of my email on VMS.  

Great minds think alike.  :-)

> When emails are HTML or base64 encoded,
> I read them on my Mac or Linux.  

Most of those I get are actually just plain text.  I decode them with 
EDT macros.  :-)

> The crux of what I get these days is SPAM.

I use the spamhaus RBL and drop connections for non-existent usernames.  
That gets rid of most of the spam.  I do get a few, but many more real 
messages than spam.

> It's easier to delete a large volume of email on VMS than it is on most of
> the GUI mail toys.  The worst is the Gmail on my Android tablet.  I almost
> never use the Gmail and it receives pretty much nothing but SPAM.  DELETE,
> DELETE, DELETE ad infinitum.  If only it had a DELETE/ALL.

Indeed.  Some allow one to delete all, but then one has to mark them all 
first.  Other things I miss with mail systems other than VMS:

DIR/SINCE/FROM/TO/SUBJECT/BEFORE etc.: SELECT on multiple criterea. 
Also, select, not order by. 

Fast paging through a folder.  Put the RFC822 headers at the bottom.  
The first part of each email is in the main file, so easy to page 
through.  Only if I need to read more is the auxiliary file accessed for 
larger messages.

COPY really copies.  I've seen a system where "copy" actually sets a 
link, so if one is deleted, both are gone.

TCPIP$SMTP_FROM

Common commands on the numeric keypad, easy to define other keys.

SET BROADCAST=MAIL 

"MAIL$SYSTEM_FLAGS" = "55"

Scriptable.

What investments have paid the highest returns in terms of time?  
Learning to touch type, learning VMS MAIL, and learning EDT.