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An even easier solution would be to get PINE which stands for "Pine is nolonger  
Elm".  It is a very user friendly mail package that compiles painlessly on the  
NeXT platform.  It supports mulitple folders, address books, sorting, different  
menu configurations  for user level complexity etc.    It is available for  
anonymous ftp from ftp.cac.washington.edu and several other archive sites.



Tom Marchioro writes
> 
> well, I don't know about a "while back" but people seem to complain about
> this *a lot*.  I certainly know that I find the NeXT command line mail
> to be a real pain (is there *any* way to change the "indent prefix" ?? 
> Setting it in the .mailrc file seems to be ignored).  The best advice
> I can offer is to get a good mailer off the archives, and the one I have, 
> Elm, also gives somewhat of a solution to your problem (i.e. that
> NeXTmail suck everything into it's own mbox every time it's run). When you
> get and install Elm, and then run it for hte first time, it asks you 
> what you want the default directory for mail to be.  Tell it to use
> ~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox, and then you're using the same directory that
> NeXTmail does.  Elm has countless nice features, not least of which is
> that it supports multiple mail folders (as does NeXTmail) and you can 
> change between them easily.  Thus, with the directory choice given above
> all you have to do to get the NeXTmail box back is type a "c" for "change 
> mail folder" and when you're prompted to name the new file type "mbox"
> which will give you back all the messages read into NeXTmail.  I've been
> doing this for months and itworks so nicely I would **literally** remove 
> the crappy NeXT /ucb/mail application if I weren't uncertain whether it 
> might serve some other purpose.  
> 
> As for getting and installing Elm, there seems to be some question how
> to go about this. It was posted not too long ago (I believe by EPS, and
> if so it's the *only* time I've seen him make an error :-) that you
> had to make Elm on your machine because it had to be configured for hte 
> local system.  However, ALL I did was to grab the binaries off of another
> machine (I forget where, Uwashington someplace) as well as the help files
> and the manual, drop them in place, and everything runs *perfectly*.  
> I can take all of this stuff and make a .tar.Z to put on Sonata, but 
> (1) I'm inthe process of moving to a new position and my plate is too
> full to get to this for at least 7-10 days and (2) I'm running a modestly
> old version of Elm (2.11 I think).  Perhaps some other kind soul could 
> put together a package on the FTP centers. If not people can drop me a
> note and I'll put what I have on the archives in a couple weeks.
> 
> Hope this is Helpful --- Tom
>