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From: Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] upas : without acme : possible?
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 19:00:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FC90F4-9EB1-45D6-8EDA-511963F40684@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181129155852.GA69882@wopr>

you can send mail with the mail command, just like traditional mailers.

reading mail: i use the same tool but envoked from faces(1) - right click on the face of the person who sent the mail to read the message.

people tend to be very impressed with faces to this day. great interface.

-Steve


> On 29 Nov 2018, at 3:58 pm, Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 08:27:09PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
>> 
>> is that "mail" you mention similar to "mailx" under unix-like systems?
>> the problem is one of not wanting a captive user-interface to the 
>> mailing sub-system.
>> 
> 
> You're looking for nedmail(1), I think.  Hopefully sl will chime in;
> he's got a pile of scripts revolving around this idea.
> 
> khm




  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-29 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-29 13:44 Mayuresh Kathe
2018-11-29 14:13 ` Alexander Sychev
2018-11-29 14:34 ` Dan Cross
2018-11-29 14:57   ` Mayuresh Kathe
2018-11-29 15:58     ` Kurt H Maier
2018-11-29 16:50       ` erik quanstrom
2018-11-29 19:00       ` Steve Simon [this message]
2018-11-30  3:32 sl
2018-11-30  3:53 ` Mayuresh Kathe
2018-11-30  4:40 sl
     [not found] <3B648B1B56B7F372B8E8ADAE7AE3D0B3@ewsd.inri.net>
2018-11-30  4:52 ` Mayuresh Kathe
2018-11-30 14:22 sl

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