> >Think about mail _client_ applications. Elm, mutt etc do need to know where > >mail lives and do write back to it > > The traditional way of sending mail from dumb programs is to call /bin/mail And 99% of the callers who do this are buggy. /bin/mail contains arbitary system dependant processing for stuff like "~" The number of web forms still around today where Hello ~!some command in the content box does terrible things is rather high Alan