Today's Exciting Acquisition & Microvax 3100 Question

From: Jim Strickland <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com>
Date: Tue Jun 19 10:40:26 2001

> Long since forgot about ELN. Remember it from the product
> lists. What was it, exactly?
>
> John A.

ELM is a mailer for Unix. It's similar to Pine (in fact,
Pine stands for Pine is Not Elm) but without the uncessary
(imho) features. It has - or used ot have, I think they
may have been split off into a seperate product now -
a system to filter mail upon reception, handles multiple
mailbox files, does NOT handle mime except to write it out
as files (which is all that is really useful to do with them, IMHO)
and calls the editor of your choice. I use ELM for the vast majority
of my e-mail, the exceptions being at work where I have to use
Microsoft Virus Transfer Protocol (outlook) and at home when I get
a message with a mime attachment, when I just leave the message in the inbox
and suck it down onto my BeOS machine in Postmaster.

Elm was written by (if memory serves) Dave Taylor of HP. It could have
been an HP product, but HP passed and he released it to the world.
The most recent release I'm aware of was to patch the y2k issues ELM
had. If you'd like an ELM screenshot, mail me offline and I'll send you one
when I get home.

-- 
Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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