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From: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
To: mayuresh@kathe.in,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] upas : without acme : possible?
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 09:34:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W5DzDy8EBoDJaKojoB5Ah8Oz_tNt9yP39HZOUpr2QRcUw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63b2327cd089137c1819d6993347430a@kathe.in>

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On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 8:45 AM Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> wrote:

> hello,
>
> is it possible to use "upas" without relying on acme?
> it might be uncomfortable (relatively speaking), but is it possible?
>

Yes. This is quite reasonable. To a first order approximation, `upas` is a
mail transfer agent, for moving mail around across a network (or just into
a mailbox on a local system) while Acme provides a mail client (a "mail
user agent") based on a filesystem.

There used to be, and probably still is, another mail client just called
'mail' that could be used to read and send mail, but that is also
independent of upas.

Hope that helps.

        - Dan C.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-29 14:34 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 [this message]
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
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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