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Date:      Sat, 3 Feb 1996 13:55:37 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Annelise Anderson <ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Elm, Pine, or ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960203135047.2310D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01I0R33DJZB600DHU8@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>

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On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, Annelise Anderson wrote:

> I just discovered I can use sendmail or mail from FreeBSD running on my
> office computer.  

:-)  

> My e-mail arrives, however, on a VAX (where I like
> to keep it).  The VAX is really awkward when replying to messages--no
> automatic quoting and character-by-character delete of footers etc.

I see.  There is a VMS version of Pine, ever try running it on the VAX?

> It would be nice to be able to reply to messages using something with a
> few more features, possibly Pine or Elm.  I used pkg_add for Pine but
> Elm needs to be ported, and an effort to port it produces "Checksum
> mismatch for elm2.4.tar.z.  The office system is 2.0.5 from the cdrom.

> Any views on Pine vs. Elm for this sort of thing?  Or anything else?

You're probably asking for it on this one...

I personally like Pine.  It's a comfortable environment and has the mix 
of features I like.  It's based on Elm so you could call it the next gen 
Elm.  I have never used Elm so I'm not going to say anything about it.

> Also if I reply to a message using elm or pine could I use the VAX
> return address and forward a copy to the VAX (to myself, I guess) so
> that the VAX remains the central receiving and storage computer for
> the e-mail?

Your problem will be getting the mail off the VAX in the first place.

Are they running a pop daemon that you could pull mail off with?  Sending 
it isn't the problem, it's retrieving it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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