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- From: lear@yeager.corp.sgi.com (Eliot Lear)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Looking for a X based mail reader for IRIX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.071745.11861@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 07:17:45 GMT
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- In <24101@alice.att.com> keshav@alice.att.com (Srinivasan Keshav) writes:
-
- >Hi,
- > I am looking for a X based mail reader to use on my IRIX
- >machine (running 4.0.5). I tried to port XMail (rewrote their pty
- >allocator) but did not succeed. If anyone has successfully ported
- >XMail or knows of public domain or commercial software for reading
- >mail, please let me know.
-
- One product I like is Z-Mail, written by Dan Heller (argv@z-code.com).
- It's a commercial product, and it looks pretty zippy on an SGI, and
- has fairly full MH-like functionality. It also reads and uses mbox
- format files. Dan already has preliminary support for MIME built in,
- and he'll be using it for enclosures in the next release. This should
- be of particular importance to SGI users that want to send graphics
- through the mail.
-
- A public domain mailer to look at is Messages. Messages comes with
- Andrew, which is on the R5 contrib tape. Warning- installing Andrew
- is non-trivial. A multimedia mailer, Messages was written by
- Nathaniel Borenstein, co-author of MIME. It also has a message
- filtering mechanism that uses a LISP-like extension language called
- Flames (great name).
- --
- Eliot Lear
- [lear@sgi.com]
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