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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-12-13, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <sp84b7$9vr$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
><clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 
>
>> I've just discovered there doesn't appear to be a way to do a REPLY/ALL
>> within VMS Mail so that your reply goes to both the sender and the other
>> people who received the original message.
>> 
>> Does anyone know of a way to do a REPLY/ALL within VMS Mail ?
>
> I'm pretty sure that there is not an obvious, easy way.  I usually do 
> REPLY then cut-and-paste what is in the CC field.  That can be a problem 
> if it is too long, as it is then in the RFC822 headers (which I have at 
> the bottom, of course).
>
> If it's a one-off thing, cut and paste.  If there is a regular group, 
> create a distribution list and FORWARD your replies to that (but then 
> you have to cut-and-paste the subject).
>

Thanks Phillip.

It's a pity that DEC/HPE never shipped a more modern command line
mail client as a standard part of VMS so that we could use that while
people like you who are happy with the current client could continue
to use that.

Simon.

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