19 Jun
2001
19 Jun
'01
5:04 a.m.
ELM is a mailer for Unix. It's similar to Pine
(in fact,
Pine stands for Pine is Not Elm) but without the uncessary
(imho) features. It has - or used ot have, I think they
may have been split off into a seperate product now -
a system to filter mail upon reception, handles multiple
mailbox files, does NOT handle mime except to write it out
as files (which is all that is really useful to do with them, IMHO)
Well, it can do a bit more than that depending on how you hack/configure it.
For those who've never played with it, it also understands multipart/
alternative which is handy (the built-in MIME support is much, much better
than uglinesses like metamail). The version I have has trouble with charsets,
though (like Windows-1252) -- has this been fixed in later versions? It
won't do replies with them, for example.
Elm was written by (if memory serves) Dave Taylor of
HP. It could have
been an HP product, but HP passed and he released it to the world.
And we're all much better off :-)
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