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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Popd support for elm
Keywords: elm popd
Message-ID: <1989Nov19.174809.13914@DSI.COM>
Date: 19 Nov 89 17:48:09 GMT
References: <1636@paperboy.OSF.ORG>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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tom@osf.osf.org (Tom Jordahl) writes:
:I recently switched jobs and I was used to support/maintaining/using elm
:at my previous location.  Now around here I find that elm is frowned
:upon because is does not support the popd or Post Office Protocol daemon.

:I have my opinion on the usefullness of this, but what I would like
:to know is why elm does not support this.
Because no one thought it important enough to do it.

:Is is being considered for elm 2.3?
No, and my guess is it won't be an easy change, as the mailbox
mangling Elm does is rather major.  What you would have would be
a very different animal, but not Elm when you were done.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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