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Subject: Re: Smail or Elm??
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Date: Mon, 7-Sep-87 23:25:26 EDT
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Smail is strictly a back-end, whereas elm is a user agent.  Smail goes
in to replace your current /bin/rmail (with a link as smail), and on
SysV boxes it puts a new front-end in place of /bin/mail, which knows
how to find the renamed /bin/mail as /bin/lmail for local mail
delivery.  Elm does nice things for you on a screen which smail knows
(and cares) nothing about.
-- 
Karl