Xref: utzoo comp.windows.x:33217 comp.windows.open-look:691 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!princeton!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: Mail, mmdf and X-mail-readers. Message-ID: <8679@gollum.twg.com> Date: 25 Feb 91 18:08:06 GMT References: <1991Feb20.064424.21917@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au> Followup-To: comp.windows.x Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 31 In article <1991Feb20.064424.21917@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au> ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Anthony Murdoch) writes: ... >Unfortunately, the standard ucb mail client will not work with the format >that mmdf (or PP) places mail in. And mailtool will not work with the ucb >mail replacement that is provided with mmdf. > ... I know about Xmh, but >I don't really like it, even though I have been using it for the past six >or so months. And besides, it doesn't work too will with olwm. Yeah.. MMDF & PP use that *superior* mailbox format ;-). er.. anyway. The /usr/ucb/Mail replacement that comes with MMDF is the real thing (e.g. Berzerkeley code that's been hacked up to read MMDF mailboxes & speak to /usr/mmdf/bin/submit the right way to do mail submission). About the only noticable difference is the prompt which defaulted to something strange, but is easily settable at compile time. I've never looked at mailtool. Is it a gooey interface that controls /usr/ucb/Mail over pipes on std{in,out,err}? If so either the MMDF-provided /usr/ucb/Mail or `mush' should work properly. My problem with xmh is that it crashes on my mailbox. Must be because of the 200 folders I keep around, eh? So I'm stuck using `mh' until I get the user agent we're working on working on X11 ... -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- MS-DOS ... The ultimate computer virus.