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From: gertjan@convx.convex.nl (Gertjan Vinkesteyn)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Smail or Elm??
Message-ID: <182@convx.convex.nl>
Date: Mon, 7-Sep-87 05:22:12 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  7 05:22:12 1987
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In article <2908@psuvax1.psu.edu>, jte@psuvax1.psu.edu (Jon Eckhardt) writes:
> Is it a good idea to run ELM on a 3B2/300?  I was going to pick between
> smail or ELM and had settled on SMAIL because it looks very simple but
> now I hear that ELM has a smart user-interface.  Which should I choose?

ELM and SMAIL are different kind of mailing systems.  You should compare elm
with mail (or berkeley Mail/mailx) and smail with sendmail.
Smail is a smart mailer what can sort things out for you, like what uucp
mail path to use etc. it can work in combination with or without sendmail.
So on SysV systems without sendmail it will run just fine not having sendmail.
But you do need a 'user mailer' on top of it like ELM, mailx or mail.
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