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[King Ables]

in article <697 at fxgrp.UUCP>, ljz at fxgrp.UUCP (Lloyd Zusman) says:
> 
> If you really need this feature and you aren't totally sold on
> [mM]ail, you might wish to investigate the following alternative
> mailers: 'elm', 'mush', and 'mh'.

There's also MM from Columbia University which is a Unix version
of the Tops-20 MM mail manager.  It's a very good port (rewrite)
of MM, as well.  It has an option to do the exact thing he's asking
for, to be put directly into an editor to compose a message.

It comes in source form and is available via anonymous ftp from
cunixc.cc.columbia.edu.  You can send mail to bug-mm at columbia.edu
if you can't get it via the internet, I imagine they can work out
a uucp transfer method.

I have nothing to do with MM or Columbia University except being
a very satisfied user of MM.

-king
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