Mailer questions and a Curses bug (was: mailx for 3b1 ver 3.0)

[Dave Brower]

In article <8014 at alice.UUCP> wilber at alice.UUCP writes:
>Right now I'm still using ye olde crufty standard-issue-out-of-the-box mail,
>but I read and write mail with Emac's rmail.  I would like to know what
>advantages, if any, there are to using one of mailx, smail, mush, etc., for
>someone who uses Emacs.

Emacs mail is fine.  Selection of a mail interface is a religious war,
but mailx, elm, mush and emacs are all lightyears ahead of SV /bin/mail. 
If you are comfortable with one, then you don't really need any of the
others.

You *do* want to install smail, however.  It is not a user interface,
but a smarter delivery agent.  The main thing it does is map user at place
to a bang path (somewhere!elsewhere!place!user) for delivery by uucp.  It 
also handles forwarding and aliasing, so you can, for instance, have mail for 
root, postmaster, daemon, uucp and news turn up in your mailbox instead of
having to su to a bunch of different users.

-dB
{amdahl, cpsc6a, mtxinu, sun, hoptoad}!rtech!daveb daveb at rtech.com <- FINALLY!