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- From: oneworld!charles (Charles W. Cooper II)
- Subject: Re: Mail <> NextMail
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.164115.8916@oneworld.wa.com>
- Sender: charles@oneworld.wa.com
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- References: <1992Aug23.031412.24019@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 16:41:15 GMT
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- An even easier solution would be to get PINE which stands for "Pine is nolonger
- Elm". It is a very user friendly mail package that compiles painlessly on the
- NeXT platform. It supports mulitple folders, address books, sorting, different
- menu configurations for user level complexity etc. It is available for
- anonymous ftp from ftp.cac.washington.edu and several other archive sites.
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- Tom Marchioro writes
- >
- > 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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