Shells for Unix Mail?
Barbara Nash
barb at library.calpoly.edu
Sat Jun 1 12:10:13 AEST 1991
peregrin at hulaw1.harvard.edu elucidates:
>Hi,
> I'm looking for suggestions for frontend shells to unix's mail.
> I'm finding that it is daunting to teach users the heavily abbreviated
>commands to unix mail. Something that is non-graphics based
>(vt100/200 compatible) similar (and better) to the interface you get
>with VMS mail would be nice. A system that gives a lot of hand-holding
>would be nice too.
> What's out there in anonymous ftp land?
elm is a sweet mail interface, fully configurable and even allowing three
levels of "competence" (beginner, intermediate, and expert). We use it
here, as we have 70+ users who use their accounts for email only and are not
at all familiar with unix. It's easier for them to handle the interface.
I believe it is available via anonymous ftp from uunet.uu.net, but I don't know
if they have the latest version/patches. We are running 2.3PL11 here.
Good luck!
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