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- From: tlm@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca (Tom Marchioro)
- Subject: Re: Mail <> NextMail
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.031412.24019@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
- Sender: news@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (News account)
- Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
- References: <borrel.714485846@fenris.dhhalden.no>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 03:14:12 GMT
- Lines: 48
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- borrel@dhhalden.no (B|rre Ludvigsen) writes:
- : Can anyone please explain how I get Mail and NextNMail to coexist?
- : I often have to log in through a terminal from the "outside world"
- : to read and reply to my mail. Most things work, but "r"-replies are
- : not happy as my name gets added to the to field, the cc field on the
- : outgoing mail gets the user <addressee@myhost>, and when I look at
- : the Outgoing.mbox/mbox with NextMail all outgoing mail sent by mail
- : don't have "to's" at all. If I look at it with mail, their all to me.
- :
- : There seems to have been a posting about this sometime back, but I only
- : have a second hand rumor. Anyone save it?
-
- well, I don't know about a "while back" but people seem to complain about
- this *a lot*. I certainly know that I find the NeXT command line mail
- to be a real pain (is there *any* way to change the "indent prefix" ??
- Setting it in the .mailrc file seems to be ignored). The best advice
- I can offer is to get a good mailer off the archives, and the one I have,
- Elm, also gives somewhat of a solution to your problem (i.e. that
- NeXTmail suck everything into it's own mbox every time it's run). When you
- get and install Elm, and then run it for hte first time, it asks you
- what you want the default directory for mail to be. Tell it to use
- ~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox, and then you're using the same directory that
- NeXTmail does. Elm has countless nice features, not least of which is
- that it supports multiple mail folders (as does NeXTmail) and you can
- change between them easily. Thus, with the directory choice given above
- all you have to do to get the NeXTmail box back is type a "c" for "change
- mail folder" and when you're prompted to name the new file type "mbox"
- which will give you back all the messages read into NeXTmail. I've been
- doing this for months and itworks so nicely I would **literally** remove
- the crappy NeXT /ucb/mail application if I weren't uncertain whether it
- might serve some other purpose.
-
- As for getting and installing Elm, there seems to be some question how
- to go about this. It was posted not too long ago (I believe by EPS, and
- if so it's the *only* time I've seen him make an error :-) that you
- had to make Elm on your machine because it had to be configured for hte
- local system. However, ALL I did was to grab the binaries off of another
- machine (I forget where, Uwashington someplace) as well as the help files
- and the manual, drop them in place, and everything runs *perfectly*.
- I can take all of this stuff and make a .tar.Z to put on Sonata, but
- (1) I'm inthe process of moving to a new position and my plate is too
- full to get to this for at least 7-10 days and (2) I'm running a modestly
- old version of Elm (2.11 I think). Perhaps some other kind soul could
- put together a package on the FTP centers. If not people can drop me a
- note and I'll put what I have on the archives in a couple weeks.
-
- Hope this is Helpful --- Tom
-
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