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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <spaug5$8ji$4 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> On 2021-12-13, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone use VMS mail to anything *at all* today?
> > The ony use, as I see it, is to sent messages *from*
> > a VMS system.
> 
> The vast majority of the time I don't. It's just that when I
> _do_ receive mail on a VMS system, it would be nice to have
> better standard tools to reply to it.

Is REPLY/ALL all that you miss?

Again, if it is a one-off to one or two people on CC, just cut and paste 
the CC line; probably quicker than finding "reply to all" in the 
pull-down menu on the GUI.  :-)  If you are often replying to the same 
group, create a distribution list.  Add to that the fact that MAIL 
translates logical names and that you can define keys and so on then you 
could have a one-press command to reply to a certain distribution list.

On the other hand, there are advantages to REPLY/ALL being somewhat 
difficult to achieve, or at least not having it the default.  :-)  
Though sometimes the results are interesting if I can laugh at others' 
expense.  :-D