Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!bpa!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!dsinc!syd From: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Elm Monthly Posting Message-ID: <58@dsinc.UUCP> Date: 13 Feb 89 15:49:50 GMT Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA Lines: 90 This is the monthly Elm Posting from the Elm Development Group and your Elm Coordinator. This posting generated: Mon Feb 13 10:36:36 EST 1989 Current release version: Elm 2.1 PL1 Patches are available from the archive server at dsinc.UUCP: send mail to archive-server@dsinc.UUCP, patch 1 is available as send elm elm2.1.p1 Current development version: Elm 2.2d Freeze for testing: 3/1/89 Anticipated release: 4/1/89 both dates subject to change without notice. As of release 2.1, Elm is now being developed by a cooperative venture of volunteers loosely being called the Elm Development Group. There are currently 26 developers and an additional 16 testers, participating at various levels of activity. Comments, bug reports, feature requests, etc. should be sent to elm@dsinc.UUCP. I try to ack most reports, but over 60% fail due to invalid addresses. Note, I strip your address to name@site before replying. New releases will be posted to comp.sources.unix, patches will be posted to comp.sources.bugs. Patches are available from the archive server at dsinc.UUCP and releases as of the current patch level are available via anon. uucp from dsinc. Instructions for obtaining files via anon. uucp from dsinc are also available from the archive server. Elm is too large to mail, don't bother asking. Currently, your coordinator does not have records on any ftp sites offering Elm for anon. ftp. Those sites offering that service should send a message to elm@dsinc and they will be included in future postings of this message. Starting with release 2.2, the Elm Development group will attempt to provide official patches to the release version to fix problems reported at the same time we are working on the 2.3 release. Also starting with release 2.2 a list of known problems will be published in this posting. The Elm(tm) Mail System (C) Copyright 1986, 1987, by Dave Taylor (C) Copyright 1988, 1989, USENET Community Trust An Overview of the Elm Mail System ---------------------------------- 1. What is Elm? In the lingo of the mail guru, Elm is a "User Agent" system, it's designed to run with "sendmail" or "/bin/rmail" (according to what's on your system) and is a full replacement of programs like "/bin/mail" and "mailx". The system is more than just a single program, however, and includes programs like "frm" to list a 'table of contents' of your mail, "printmail" to quickly paginate mail files (to allow 'clean' printouts), and "autoreply", a systemwide daemon that can autoanswer mail for people while they're on vacation without having multiple copies spawned on the system. 2. What's New about Elm? The most significant difference between Elm and earlier mail systems is that Elm is screen-oriented. Upon further use, however, users will find that Elm is also quite a bit easier to use, and quite a bit more "intelligent" about sending mail and so on. 3. What systems does it work on? Elm was originally written on HP-UX, HP's proprietary version of Bell system V, with a little BSD thrown in. Since then, it has been ported to Bell, Berkeley, Sun, UTS, Pyramid and Xenix and should run on all these systems without any modifications. 4. Does it obey existing mail standards? Yes! That's another of the basic reasons the program was originally written! To ensure that the date field, the "From:" line and so on were all added in the correct format. The program is 100% correct according to the RFC-822 electronic mail header protocol guide. -- ===================================================================== Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator Datacomp Systems, Inc. Voice: (215) 947-9900 {allegra,bpa,vu-vlsi}!dsinc!syd FAX: (215) 938-0235