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Re: Preferred mail readers?

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From: Ken Yap
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:00
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|>	On both I use exmh.  It's tcl/tk based so you can add what you
|>	like to it.
|>
|>	It also supports PGP, Glimpse, and the faces databases which
|>	does make life easy! :)
|>
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|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.

But I also use a text based mail reader (pine) when I'm logged in
remotely.
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Subject: Re: Preferred mail readers?
Date: 1997/01/23
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