From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 29 10:24:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA19757 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 10:24:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA19737 Mon, 29 Jan 1996 10:24:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA08463; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 11:26:17 -0700 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 11:26:17 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199601291826.LAA08463@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Pedro Giffuni Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please include Mail Handler In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I want to propose the inclusion of the MH pacakage with the main > FreeBSD distribution. Noooooo........ :) > MH is a public domain package developed by the RAND corporation that > permits mail management with a shell. I knew of it because it is > necesary for using XMH, and several operating systems like AIX include it. This particular topic has been discussed to death in the past, and the conclusion was that everyone has a pet mail program they prefer, so by only distributing the most basic mail program (mail), we allow folks to read/write email on the base system. However, we also supply ports to most of the more popular mailers like elm, mh, and pine. They are easily installed, and don't have to be part of the base system. It's as simply as grab the mh package and running pkg_install on it to have it part of your system. Nate