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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