From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 8 5: 3: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.vnet.net (smtp1.vnet.net [166.82.1.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96D5114BE1 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 05:03:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp1.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA14508; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:02:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA01209; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:02:20 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.2/8.6.9) id IAA05232; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:02:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:02:20 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199903081302.IAA05232@lakes.dignus.com> To: dcs@newsguy.com, nate@mt.sri.com Subject: Re: base64 Cc: alk@pobox.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36E3BD67.AA51513F@newsguy.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > We could replace our /bin/mail with the one supplied with metamail. > > IMHO, that would be bloat. No one who reads mail on a regular basis > use /bin/mail. Unless they are reading root's log mail. > I'd have to disagree - as someone who uses /bin/mail exclusively for reading mail. And, I get a *lot* of mail a day, several hundred messages on a slow day... Nothing works better for me than good ol' /bin/mail. (Of course, I take it you mean /usr/bin/mail on FreeBSD - there isn't a /bin/mail.) - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message