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

[Steven Schweda]

> [...]  I usually do REPLY then cut-and-paste what is in the CC field.
> [...]

   Same here.  That X Windows stuff is a miracle.

> [...] Does anyone use VMS mail to anything *at all* today? [...]

   I do.  I have decades worth of old e-mail on my VMS system.  I
generally use e-mail for text messages not arbitrary file transfers.  I
have FTP/HTTP/... servers for such tasks.  Call me stodgy.

> Apparently VMS MAIL can be served to a POP client or whatever. [...]

   I'll admit that using VMS MAIL on MIME-encoded messages is a chore,
especially with the multiply painful MIME utility on my system.  For
messages with exotic content, I keep a separate VMS account to which I
forward the non-plain-text message.  Then I try to read it on a Mac
which uses IMAP to access the server on the VMS system.  It often works.

   When I do this, the Mac Mail program occasionally tries to consume
all the memory on the (Mac) system, so my confidence in the TCPIP IMAP
server is not very high.  Hence I use it only to access the e-mail for
that separate account, not my real/normal account e-mail.