list issues & status

[Jacob Ritorto]

I tried using mail(1) on 2.11BSD the other day.   It had some nice features
that I never paid attention to in the past. Seemed actually quite
functional.  I wanna try living with it for a week, just for hubris /
bragging rights.

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 02:41:05PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote:
> > Call me when you find someone who still uses /usr/ucb/Mail or Rand MH.
>
> *waves*
>
> I was using it yesterday.  Because it is so basic, Mail is just the thing
> for
> firing one-liners at mailing list managers and the like, without risk of it
> "helpfully" sending me a copy of the outgoing message as is the habit of
> other
> MUAs.
>
> I'm not sure I can remember how to *read* mail with it though.
>
>