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

Jan-Erik Söderholm jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com
Wed Dec 15 18:06:28 EST 2021


Den 2021-12-15 kl. 19:37, skrev Simon Clubley:
> On 2021-12-14, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>> 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?
>>
> 
> Quoted replies and integrated MIME support would be nice as well. :-)
> 
> I don't use VMS mail all that much these days but when I do receive
> an email on a VMS system, it immediately becomes very clear just how
> primitive VMS mail actually is.
> 
> Following on from a suggestion in another response, I wonder if VSI
> would be interested in shipping Pine (or whatever it is called these
> days) as a standard part of VMS.

If they have a business case doing that, that is, if it improves the
"bottom line" for VSI, I hope they do that. But does that business case
really exist? Are there paying custumers asking VSI for an improved mail?


> 
> Simon.
> 




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