whm@arizona.UUCP (06/06/83)
What's the state of the art in mail reading/posting programs for
Unix? During "peak" periods, I receive about 100 messages per
day on the average, 0 of which of "mailing list" traffic, and about
a fourth of which require some action on my part, usually a reply.
I'm running a slightly hacked version 2.1 of ucbmail, and it's starting
to buckle under the strain. I understand that the "current" version
of ucbmail is a considerable improvement over what I've got. I've
looked at MH, and although it's a definite improvement in some areas,
it seems to lose in others. Are MH and ucbmail the only two modern
Unix mail systems in use? Oops, I forgot the various Emacs rmail
programs, but I've used some of them, and I haven't found one yet
that I'd deem a suitable replacement for ucbmail. (How about mh rmail,
I don't know anything about it.)
So, let me ask, what's better than what I've mentioned? If you've got
or know of something better, let me know. I'll entertain arguments on
why x is better than ucbmail. In particular, I'd be interested in
informed arguments on why [you think that] MH is better than ucbmail.
Tell me what you think and I'll summarize what I find out and report
back.
Bill Mitchell
whm.arizona@rand-relay
{kpno,mcnc,utah-cs}!arizona!whm
p.s.
Has anybody hacked up ucbmail so that it will reread the spool file
on demand? Anybody getting ready to? I'd pay hard cash for such
an enhancement, not to mention hard cash for a better mail system.mike%brl-vgr@sri-unix.UUCP (06/07/83)
From: Mike Muuss <mike@brl-vgr> I too process over 100 messages a day (Mondays, > 250), and I use MSG, which does almost everything I desire. As it comes, MSG is intended to interface with MMDF mail systems, as it expects mailboxes in your home directly, with messages separated with lines of four ^A s, but it probably could be easily hacked for other arrangements. Source upon request. It even has an "undigestify" feature, to tear apart ARPA Digests back into separate messages. Best, -Mike