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- From: ajt@swan.doc.ic.ac.uk (Tony Travis)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Berkeley mail?
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- Date: 26 Aug 92 18:17:53 GMT
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- Sean Eckton (ecktons@sirius.byu.edu) wrote:
- : > Well, the mail program in mailpak is sort of BSDish. But
- : > why use mail when you can use ELM?
-
- I've just compiled the elm mailer under linux 0.97 and it is really nice!
-
- I _was_ using "ream" previously which is good too, but elm 2.3 is the
- first version of elm to tempt me away from ream. Ream is by Paul
- Dourish and I got it from Edinburgh University in the UK.
-
- : Actually, a better mail system (I think) is PINE. Take a look at it. You
- : might find that it is MUCH better than anything else. If I remember right,
- : elm uses vi to do its mail editing. Pine has a completely different editor
-
- wrong: elm looks for the EDITOR variable in your environment and you
- can set it to your favourite editor (I use ue). If you don't setenv
- EDITOR elm will default to a compiled in default (/usr/ucb/vi unless
- you edit the header file).
-
- Tony.
-
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