[Info-vax] REPLY/ALL in VMS Mail client ?
Phillip Helbig undress to reply
helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de
Thu Dec 16 00:29:21 EST 2021
In article <61ba8070$0$703$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> >>>>> 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
> >
> > From my EDTINI.EDT:
> >
> > !From: SMTP%"FAIRFIELD at slac.stanford.edu" 17-NOV-1995 11:49:25.89
> > DEFINE MACRO QUOTE
> > FIND BUFFER QUOTE
> > insert;set quiet
> > insert;change; er -l 9999(i> ^Z -2l) ex
> > insert;set noquiet
> > FIND LAST
> > DEFINE KEY GOLD Q AS "EXT QUOTE."
> >
> > If I want to quote a message, I hit GOLD Q in EDT. I want to choose
> > whether to quote (i.e. prefix each line with some symbol) each message I
> > reply to, forward, etc.
>
> I got some TPU code doing something similar:
> - quote with string from logical
> - include short or long signature files via logical based on whether
> VMS mail or internet email
Yes, I have stuff like that as well. My EDTINI.EDT is about 650 lines.
Much of that has to do with MAIL.
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