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From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM
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Subject: Re: Shells for Unix Mail?
Message-ID: <1991May29.000913.27168@cbfsb.att.com>
Date: 29 May 91 00:09:13 GMT
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In-Reply-To: peregrin@hulaw1.harvard.edu's message of 28 May 91 19: 29:33 GMT
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>>>>> On 28 May 91 19:29:33 GMT, peregrin@hulaw1.harvard.edu said:

p> 	I'm looking for suggestions for frontend shells to unix's mail.
p>  I'm finding that it is daunting to teach users the heavily abbreviated
p> commands to unix  mail.  Something that is non-graphics based
p> (vt100/200 compatible) similar (and better) to the interface you get
p> with VMS mail would be nice.  A system that gives a lot of hand-holding
p> would be nice too.
p> 	What's out there in anonymous ftp land?

"VM (View Mail) is an Emacs subsystem that allows UNIX mail to be read
and disposed of within Emacs.  Commands exist to do the normal things
expected of a mail user agent, such as generating replies, saving
messages to folders, deleting messages and so on.  There are other more
advanced commands that do tasks like bursting and creating digests,
message forwarding, and organizing message presentation according to
various criteria."

plus you can use SuperCite e.g., to automatically generate those "p>"s
above!  Anyway, see newsgroups gnu.emacs.vm.* for more info.