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From: Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>
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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 19:00:50 +0000
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] upas : without acme : possible?
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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:
>=20
>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 08:27:09PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
>>=20
>> 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=20
>> mailing sub-system.
>>=20
>=20
> You're looking for nedmail(1), I think.  Hopefully sl will chime in;
> he's got a pile of scripts revolving around this idea.
>=20
> khm