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

[John Vottero]

On Tuesday, December 14, 2021 at 7:46:32 AM UTC-5, VAXman- wrote:
> In article <sp9al1$1jf0$2... at gioia.aioe.org>, hel... at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes: 
> >In article <sp8j89$cti$1... at dont-email.me>, 
> >=?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.... at telia.com> 
> >writes: 
> > 
> >> Hm... I was also just going to "reply" to that. 
> >> Why on earth does *VMS* mail need any updates? 
> >> 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. 
> > 
> >????? 
> > 
> >I have been using VMS MAIL for everything since 1991. I send a few and 
> >receive dozens of messages per day. I run a moderation relay for two 
> >newsgroups. 
> > 
> >I have used, at work, pine, elm, Lotus Notes, Outlook and so on and am 
> >MUCH more comfortable with VMS MAIL. 
> > 
> >Different strokes for different folks. 
> > 
> >Of course, you need a proper keyboard to really experience the thrill. 
> >:-)
> I too do most of my email on VMS. When emails are HTML or base64 encoded, 
> I read them on my Mac or Linux. The crux of what I get these days is SPAM. 
> It's easier to delete a large volume of email on VMS than it is on most of 
> the GUI mail toys. The worst is the Gmail on my Android tablet. I almost 
> never use the Gmail and it receives pretty much nothing but SPAM. DELETE, 
> DELETE, DELETE ad infinitum. If only it had a DELETE/ALL. 
> 

Click the checkbox in the column headings. That will check all e-mails. Then you can click delete.

There's also a pulldown in the checkbox column heading which lets you select various sets of e-mails.

It's not as good as a CLI could be but, it's better than nothing.