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On Thu, 23 Jan 1997 01:02:02 GMT, Ken Yap <ken@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU> wrote:

>|I use plain old ELM in an nxterm.  I've tried exmh, and while it is superior
>|in nearly every way, it stores every message as a separate file and creates
>|mailboxes by linking to the files in creative ways.  This is probably
>				      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>|reasonable enough once you get used to it, but personally I much prefer
>|ELM's option to creating a number of flat files, one for each incoming user. 
>|I don't know, I just like to store messages in single files - it makes it a
>|lot easier to browse through my mail using other utilities such as text
>|editors.
>
>What creative ways does MH use? It's just a file hierarchy reflecting
>your mailbox hierarchy. Directories = folders, files = messages. Also
>it's just as easy to search through MH messages once you discover how
>to use mhpath with the backtick in shell.

Ok, well the real reason then:  I have no desire to learn another mail
handling system.

After reading this thread, I actually installed the mh and exmh rpms, but I
couldn't get outgoing mail to work.  Confirmed all my prejudices.  Does anyone
know what the procedure for getting outgoing mail to work is with mh on a
RedHat 4.0 system?

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Jason Stokes: j.stokes@bohm.anu.edu.au

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