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STELM: (c) J & K Lemmens, 1993 ; J. Berger, 1993
ELM
The tools in this package make it possible to receive and send mail to
other users on the system or output from the system generated by cron
or other tools. Behaviour is similar to the UNIX elm, although it
lacks a lot of the features found in the UNIX version.
Mail format is the standard UNIX format, so you can read mailfiles
from a UNIX system without any modification.
The program explains itself (I hope so anyway), so I don't think it is
necessary to say much about the menu options.
m : Mail to a user.
f : Forward to another user. (Send a copy of the current mail)
r : Reply to the user who has sent the current message.
d : Mark the current message for deletion. Actually deletion only takes
place when exiting elm or when forcing a resync, with the $ command.
To install :
- Create a directory /usr/mail .
- Obtain a termcap file and put it in /etc .
(if you don't have termcap elm will only work on vt52 terminals)
- Put elm in your standard /bin/ directory .
Editor :
The standard editor is mg (Micro-Emacs). If you want to use another
editor, you can use the -e option from the commandline.
One thing : if you use an editor that doesn't use the standard ATARI
argument passing mechanism (with a max. commandline of 127 chars), it
won't work with elm.
Mailfile:
The mailfile is taken from the LOGNAME environment variable. Default
is to search in /usr/mail for a file named ${LOGNAME}
This can be overridden with the -f option : In this way you read an
arbitrary mailfile.
NEWMAIL : ( by Jeroen Berger)
This tool puts itself in the background and polls every minute if there
is any new mail for the user who invoked it. If this is the case, it prints
a message like " You have new mail".
It automatically stops itself if the program from which it was started exits.
(i.e. the user logged out)
Any remarks or suggestions about these programs can be send to:
lemmens@dv.twi.tudelft.nl or berger@tudebg.et.tudelft.nl