Chapter 12: E-mail

The MAIL Facility

This section introduces the OpenVMS e-mail facility. In the early days of OpenVMS, the mail facility could send messages only to users on the local node or on a DECnet network, but it has since been enhanced to allow messages to be sent to or received from any Internet e-mail address.

There are two ways to use OpenVMS mail. One is to use the MAIL facility directly on the OpenVMS system, either through a text interface or through the GUI. The GUI interface is covered in Chapter 15, "The OpenVMS GUI."

The other method is to use the OpenVMS computer system as an e-mail server for separate client systems, such as personal computers. Both approaches are described below.