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From: jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elm for DOS
Message-ID: <527@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 30 Aug 88 10:19:30 GMT
References: <146@pbseps.UUCP> <51900009@urbsdc>
Organization: Philips TDS, P.O. Box 245, 7300 AE Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
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In article <51900009@urbsdc> darrell@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM writes:
>Elm is tended to be a user interface instead of a mail delivery agent,
>i.e., you use elm to compose your mail and something else, such as
>sendmail, to deliver it.  Sendmail handles smtp and also interfaces with
>other delivery agents such as uux.
A SMTP interface of Elm would just be a channel between User Agent and
Transport Agent, as it is done in MH.
If you want, you can see if your mail is deliverable as far as your
network can handle.

>Latest word I've heard is that elm 2.1 will be officially available in
>comp.sources.unix around mid-September.
Let's hope.

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