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From: gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore)
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Subject: Re: mail front end
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Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 08:02:02 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  5 08:02:02 1985
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> Does anyone have a convenient emacs front end to Berkeley Unix mail
> (instead of the usual rmail/smail package)?

Try mhe (which requires mh, which is public domain).  A reportedly
broken version comes with mh.5 (the newly released version).  Brian
Reid at Stanford wrote it originally and it has been hacked in
various places, including Sun.  I don't know that a complete and
wonderful and portable version exists anywhere, but you're welcome to
a copy of what I'm running.  It's a lot better than rmail; it supports
folders, and it uses the mh file structure as an underlying database,
so you can mess with the messages conveniently from OUTSIDE emacs,
like to grep or lpr or just read a few new messages when you don't
want to wait for emacs to come up.