efbatey%tervax.DECnet@NSWSES.ARPA ("TERVAX::EFBATEY") (08/08/88)
After the sweet taste of really good mail user interfaces, it is really hard for me to use VMS-Mail. For some time I have been fortunate to use the Software Tools MSG, mail user interface. Much closer to /usr/ucb/mail than VMS-Mail and much faster and more convenient. Much better at scooting thru info-vax mail as passed to me over DECNET from our ARPA to WIN/TCP host. Sunday night turns into Monday morning before I get all the headers fixed so I can read the 100 plus i-v mail items ( resurrect from and subject from 'mailer @ vaxx' and '[TCP/IP Mail From ... ]actual subject'. Then Friday on my UUCP connected Sun's, I got Dan Heller's (from Island Graphics) Mail User's Shell (MUSH v6.3). Jaguar drivers, eat your hearts out. This is primo interfacing from Mail Deliverer ( assumes ascii seq files like RFC822, like Software Tools MSG ) and gives the dumbest terminal with limited cursor control a full screen mail interfacing and internal command shell. SLICK. Probably someone out there HAS or SHOULD port this SysV/BSD publicly available mail user interface to VMS? Volunteers? ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Everett F. Batey II } { UUCP: suned1!efb@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV | | USNSWSES - Code 4V33 } { ARPA: efbatey@NSWSES.ARPA | | * SO CAL Sun LUG * DECUS * 805/982-5881 * 805/983-1220 * | | DISCLAIMER.H -- I DO NOT REPRESENT THE US / USN / anyothers | ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------