soyMAIL Overview



soyMAIL provides authenticated Web access to an account's VMS Mail. All that is required at the client end is a (relatively) modern browser that supports CSS. JavaScript enhances the functionality of soyMAIL but is not essential to it's use.

soyMAIL has been developed and tested against these browsers

Firefox 3.0 and 2.0 (FreeBSD, Linux, Win32)
Mozilla 1.7 (Win32 and VMS)
Opera 9.6, 9.5, 9.2 and 9.1 (FreeBSD, Linux, Win32)
MSIE 7.0 and 6.0 (Win32)

these VMS Web server environments

Apache (SWS) 2.1 and 1.3
OSU 3.10
WASD 9.3, 9.2 and 9.1

and is suitable for all VMS platforms and versions from V6.0 onwards.

soyMAIL supports

receiving and sending:

native VMS Mail messages
Internet (SMTP) mail messages
MIME messaging and attachments
HTML format message text
messages of non-Latin characters and directionality
(for example Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew)

message content search
contact (address) maintenance
context-sensitive help
user options (including theme and language)

soyMAIL has been carefully and extensively optimized to perform well within the general VMS environment and across both intranets and the Internet.


soyMAIL v1.5 screenshots


Folder open showing message listing

Plain text message being read

Message composition page showing plain text edit

Message composition showing HTML edit

Folder search parameters

User options

Options - showing theme and language

Help page (introductory)


soyMAIL can be downloaded from


http://wasd.vsm.com.au/wasd/