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

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <d638bba5-ab2e-439b-803c-eef33ad56a8bn at googlegroups.com>, John Vottero <john at vottero.com> writes:
>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.

Have you ever used Gmail on an Android tablet?  There's no column checkbox!


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

No checkbox column.


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

If it existed, it might be.

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