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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 20:27:09 +0530
From: Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in>
To: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
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Cc: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] upas : without acme : possible?
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On 2018-11-29 08:04 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
> 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.

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.

i really hate moving out of the text console and away from the
command-line.

yes, i really don't mind having multiple consoles around instead of the
unixy way of switching terminals using ctrl+fn keys.

thanks,

~mayuresh