glenn@mathcs.emory.edu (Glenn Barry) (05/09/89)
Here is some good info on mush that Dan H. posted awhile back to another group: (btw, I use, I like it, I recommend to others at emory that they use it) glenn barry ----- From gatech!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!dheller Fri Jul 1 23:14:56 EDT 1988 Article 1126 of comp.mail.misc: Path: emory!gatech!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!dheller >From: dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Heller) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: making the Mail reply command use From_ rather than From: Summary: shameless plug for mush Message-ID: <4192@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> Date: 1 Jul 88 06:21:42 GMT References: <10682@andante.UUCP> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu Reply-To: dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Dan Heller) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 49 In article <10682@andante.UUCP> mp@allegra.UUCP (Mark Plotnick) writes: >We'd like to add an option to Mail so that it will use the From_ line >rather than the frequently incorrect From: line when users reply to Well, using mush, you can just set the reply_to_hdr variable to be anything from NULL, to a list of headers ... Mush will look for each header till one is found and use that. For example, I set mine to Reply-To, Return-Path, From. This is usually the best list to choose from. Now, I know what you're thinking... "No! not another mailer!" You don't want to learn yet another mail interface and lose all those great things you were used to with Mail... well, you won't. Mush was designed to be as backwards compatible to ucb-Mail as possible -- in fact, the distribution comes with a Mailrc which sets variables and things so that mush will look exactly like ucbmail. This includes virtually all commands and functionality. (there are some exceptions, but you probably won't care anymore before you ever find those exceptions). Neat features include: Automatic incorporation of new mail as it comes in. Sort messages according to <lots of options> Pick messages (analogous to MH) History (like csh) Command-line aliases (like csh) Piping commands Running Unix commands (this is a shell, remember) A curses interface (if you're clever, you can make it look like rn :-) Programmability (make it look like vi or emacs or whatever) A suntools interface (sun 2.0 and up). On-line help for each command and it's legal arguments. Now, you're asking, "will mush work on *my* system?" Probably. Mush has been successfully installed on many systems from risc machines, to PC's.. If it runs unix, you can probably run mush. If it doesn't, let me know what's wrong and I'll fix it (or try to). Where do you get it? The latest version is on ucbvax in mush-6.3.tar.Z If you have a system V box and have tried mush before with some errors, all the documented system V bugs have been solved. It even passes lint with less than a page of errors (depending on your lint, I guess). Your milage may vary, but it's worth a shot. If you don't have ftp access, you can mail me here (dheller@cory.berkeley.edu) and I'll mail you a copy (tarmail format). Dan Heller <island!argv@sun.com> -- Glenn T. Barry | glenn@mathcs.emory.edu Internet Emory University | {sun!sunatl,gatech}!emory!glenn UUCP Dept of Math and CS | glenn@emory BITNET Atlanta, GA 30322 | ph: (404) 727-5637
schaefer@ogccse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) (05/09/89)
In article <4020@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> glenn@mathcs.emory.edu (Glenn Barry) writes: } Here is some good info on mush that Dan H. posted awhile back } to another group: } } >From: dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Heller) } Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc } Subject: Re: making the Mail reply command use From_ rather than From: } Summary: shameless plug for mush } } Where do you get it? The latest version is on ucbvax in mush-6.3.tar.Z Boy, this IS old! The most recent version available is mush-6.5.tar.Z . } It even passes lint } with less than a page of errors (depending on your lint, I guess). And depending on your curses include files. -- Bart Schaefer "And if you believe that, you'll believe anything." -- DangerMouse CSNET / Internet schaefer@cse.ogc.edu UUCP ...{sequent,tektronix,verdix}!ogccse!schaefer