Re: Preferred mail readers?

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From: Gary Capell
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:00

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j.stokes@student.anu.edu.au (Jason Stokes) writes:

>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.

Strange, I find that storing messages in single files makes it
a lot easier for me to browse through my mail using my text editor.
In fact, all I need and use is:  a program to break my mail spool
into separate files, a program to generate a reply message from
an incoming message, a program to deliver a message, and my text
editor.  Who needs a "mail reader"?
--
http://www.cs.su.oz.au/~gary/

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Date: 1997/01/22
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