From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <63b2327cd089137c1819d6993347430a@kathe.in> In-Reply-To: <63b2327cd089137c1819d6993347430a@kathe.in> From: Dan Cross Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 09:34:40 -0500 Message-ID: To: mayuresh@kathe.in, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="00000000000064fb76057bce97fb" Subject: Re: [9fans] upas : without acme : possible? Topicbox-Message-UUID: ef9e8f00-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --00000000000064fb76057bce97fb Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 8:45 AM Mayuresh Kathe 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. --00000000000064fb76057bce97fb Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Thu, Nov 29= , 2018 at 8:45 AM Mayuresh Kathe <m= ayuresh@kathe.in> wrote:
hel= lo,

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 ord= er approximation, `upas` is a mail transfer agent, for moving mail around a= cross a network (or just into a mailbox on a local system) while Acme provi= des a mail client (a "mail user agent") based on a filesystem.

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

Hope that= helps.

=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 - Dan C.
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