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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!frank
- From: frank@halcyon.com (Frank Higgins)
- Subject: How can I or why doesn't elm?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.203416.13833@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:34:16 GMT
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- I am no guru and am a "greenie" with elm, so either I have not found how to
- do what I seek to do or I am trying to do something elm was never intended
- to do. I installed HDB and elm in order to work on usenet. I am running an
- AT&T 3B1. Somewhere in the elm material was information to the effect that
- many mailers including "AT&T E-mail" were looked at before elm was built.
-
- Although the "E-mail" *I* have was designed specifically to be the mailer
- for AT&T's Starlan, I found it a very convenient mailer pre-usenet (direct
- connection) for communication with a few others who were also not on the
- net. What I do NOT now have that I had before and would like again are:
-
- 1) E-mail offered an "Attachment" function whereby I needed merely
- to indicate that a file or files be attached to the message I
- was sending and bingo, away it went (ANY kind of file). It was
- especially convenient with Starlan. Now that elm interferes with
- E-mail, I no longer have that convenience. The "r" command of
- "vi" serves the purpose but not as well.
-
- 2) I know that this is a function of uucp and the problem probably
- lies with HDB or my implementation of it, but: With E-mail
- implemented, I could setup mail so that outgoing to a particular
- addressee (remote sys) was on a NEVER basis, and my system
- didn't run up a phone bill trying to deliver. BUT, the
- addressee could "call in" (send me a message) and pick up all of
- the mail accumulated for him but undelivered. NOW, any
- undelivered mail for any addressee, disappears into never never
- land, and that convenience of communicating with an addressee
- that isn't always turned on, is no longer possible.
-
- *IF* there are answers to the above, please phrase them in simple terms. I
- "speak UNIX" very poorly. Most of what I've seen in this group is
- incomprehensible. (I want to "drive the car". I am a mechanic reluctantly
- but adequately. But, I definitely do NOT want to become an "automotive
- engineer" :^) )
-
- Frank
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