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Re: make mutt the `standard' mail reader



On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 02:01:22PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 02:49:46PM +0000, Edward Betts wrote:
> > does anyone still use elm?
> > why don't we make elm optional, and mutt standard.
> 
> Because elm is one of those things that should always be there on a
> system even marginally related to any unix whereas mutt is something new.

True enough. MUA choices where I work (on HP-UX systems) are Netscape
and elm only. 

> People prolly are still using it.  Note that mutt is NOT a user friendly
> MUA to configure at this time.  If that changes mutt will have a good

Huh? It's easy enough IMHO and much more flexible than elm.

Hamish
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