Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wugate!wupost!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: UNOCC07@UNOMA1.BITNET (Dave Caplinger) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: NEWS v5.9 and MAIL interface Message-ID: Date: 14 Jul 89 17:51:00 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion Reply-To: Dave Caplinger Lines: 23 Original_To: BITNET%"anu-news@ndsuvm1" Original_cc: UNOCC07 >While I'm writing to the list, there is some more information about versions of >NEWS: NEWS V5.8B will NOT be coming out. I have been working on including >personal MAIL into news (after all mail folders and newsgroups are pretty >similar). > >V5.9 will be released in a few weeks which will include the commands > > OPEN/MAIL and CLOSE/MAIL > >which will allow NEWS to be used as a mail user agent (with a set of additional >commands to manage your mail file). > >Geoff Huston >gih900@csc.anu.oz.au Will 5.9 additionally include the ability to FILE newsitems in your MAIL folders? This would be /very/ handy... -/ Dave Caplinger /------------------+----------------------------------- Microcomputer Specialist | Internet: unocc07@zeus.unl.edu "Computing and Data Communications" | UUCP: uunet!btni!unocss!dent University of Nebraska at Omaha | Bitnet: UNOCC07@UNOMA1 Omaha, NE 68182 | or dc3a+@andrew.cmu.edu