🚀 go-pugleaf

I am no guru and am a "greenie" with elm, so either I have not found how to
do what I seek to do or I am trying to do something elm was never intended
to do. I installed HDB and elm in order to work on usenet. I am running an
AT&T 3B1. Somewhere in the elm material was information to the effect that
many mailers including "AT&T E-mail" were looked at before elm was built.

Although the "E-mail" *I* have was designed specifically to be the mailer
for AT&T's Starlan, I found it a very convenient mailer pre-usenet (direct
connection) for communication with a few others who were also not on the
net. What I do NOT now have that I had before and would like again are:

	1) E-mail offered an "Attachment" function whereby I needed merely
	   to indicate that a file or files be attached to the message I
	   was sending and bingo, away it went (ANY kind of file). It was
	   especially convenient with Starlan. Now that elm interferes with
	   E-mail, I no longer have that convenience. The "r" command of
	   "vi" serves the purpose but not as well.

	2) I know that this is a function of uucp and the problem probably
	   lies with HDB or my implementation of it, but: With E-mail
	   implemented, I could setup mail so that outgoing to a particular
	   addressee (remote sys) was on a NEVER basis,  and my system
	   didn't run up a phone bill trying to deliver. BUT, the
	   addressee could "call in" (send me a message) and pick up all of
	   the mail accumulated for him but undelivered. NOW, any
	   undelivered mail for any addressee, disappears into never never
	   land, and that convenience of communicating with an addressee
	   that isn't always turned on, is no longer possible.

*IF* there are answers to the above, please phrase them in simple terms. I
"speak UNIX" very poorly. Most of what I've seen in this group is
incomprehensible. (I want to "drive the car". I am a mechanic reluctantly
but adequately. But, I definitely do NOT want to become an "automotive
engineer"   :^)   )

Frank        

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