Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 11:26:17 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@biblioteca.campus.unal.edu.co> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please include Mail Handler Message-ID: <199601291826.LAA08463@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.960129112909.11404A@biblioteca.campus.unal.edu.co> References: <Pine.A32.3.91.960129112909.11404A@biblioteca.campus.unal.edu.co>
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> I want to propose the inclusion of the MH pacakage with the main > FreeBSD distribution. Noooooo........ :) > MH is a public domain package developed by the RAND corporation that > permits mail management with a shell. I knew of it because it is > necesary for using XMH, and several operating systems like AIX include it. This particular topic has been discussed to death in the past, and the conclusion was that everyone has a pet mail program they prefer, so by only distributing the most basic mail program (mail), we allow folks to read/write email on the base system. However, we also supply ports to most of the more popular mailers like elm, mh, and pine. They are easily installed, and don't have to be part of the base system. It's as simply as grab the mh package and running pkg_install on it to have it part of your system. Nate
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