From: ajt@swan.doc.ic.ac.uk (Tony Travis) Subject: Re: Berkeley mail? Date: 26 Aug 1992 18:17:53 GMT
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.