> 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)
Well, it can do a bit more than that depending on how you hack/configure it.
For those who've never played with it, it also understands multipart/
alternative which is handy (the built-in MIME support is much, much better
than uglinesses like metamail). The version I have has trouble with charsets,
though (like Windows-1252) -- has this been fixed in later versions? It
won't do replies with them, for example.
> 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.
And we're all much better off :-)
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