Various Breeds of Mail User Agents...
taylor at hplabsc.UUCP
taylor at hplabsc.UUCP
Wed Jul 16 03:52:59 AEST 1986
There are lots of strange breeds of mail systems out in the world that run
on Unix systems. Of those, I know of;
/bin/mail The 'first' user interface to the mail system.
Mail(aka mailx) The Berkeley rewrite of /bin/mail
Elm (aka msg) A public domain mailer w/ screen-oriented interface
Mh A public domain mailer with discrete Unix commands
rmail A mailer that lives in GNU Emacs and needs MH (?)
Of those, I'd like to get more information on rmail from someone. Also,
I'm SURE there are lots of other mail systems (I know of dmail, uumail and
nmail too, but I'm not sure they let you READ mail too).
If you use or have access to a mail system that isn't in this small list,
PLEASE let me know.
Ideally, I'd like to have the following information;
o the name of the system
o the system is was created on and now runs on
o the author(s) name(s) and organization
o ** as much documentation as possible **
o idealy a sample 'usage' session with the system too, in case
the documentation doesn't have too much detail...
Thanks a lot.
I'll post a summary of the information I receive to net.mail in a
month or so...
-- Dave Taylor (taylor at hplabs.HP.COM)
moderator: mod.comp-soc and mod.conferences and Elm/Msg author
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