Other E-Mail Programs
There are several programs available for reading and managing
e-mail. Some are designed to make mail easier to user and
most provide more features than the vanilla mail program.
Three of the most commonly used are:
Pine is designed to make reading and sending e-mail much easier.
It has a menu based interface and always maintains a list of
the command that are available.
It also allows you to separate your mail in to multiple folders.
For example, you could keep personal correspondence in one folder,
and mail from various mailing lists each in their own folder.
It has several other useful features as well. You can read more
about it by reading this
introduction written by the Pine authors or by simply
typing pine to run it.
Elm is similar to pine. Both offer a menu based interface and
features including multiple folders for storing mail. Elm has
more features than pine, but is more complex, making it more
difficult to learn.
More information is available in
the FAQ
, the man page, or by simplying typing elm to run it.
MH stands for Message Handler. It is a very powerful program, but
also very advanced. It offers all the features that Pine and
Elm offer, plus many more. The main drawback is that it is very
complicated and difficult to learn. It is geared at users who
are experienced with Unix.
Furthermore, it stores mail in its own format, so you cannot
use other mail programs and MH interchangeably (which you can
with Pine and Elm).
More information is available in
the FAQ
or the man page. It is highly reccomended that you read through
the documentation before trying it out the first time.
Last modified: July 1, 1994 -- www@ocf.berkeley.edu