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Elm - Electronic Mail for UNIX


The Elm WWW Tree is still undergoing construction, so please bear with us.
In the lingo of the mail guru, Elm is a "Mail User Agent" system, it's designed to run with "sendmail" or "/bin/rmail" or any other UNIX Mail Transport Agent (according to what's on your system) and is a full replacement of programs like "/bin/mail" and "mailx". Elm is considered "Freely Distributable Software." Its copyright is held by the USENET Community Trust. This ensures that it is available for all to use.

The system is more than just a single program, however, and includes programs like "frm" to list a 'table of contents' of your mail, and "printmail" to quickly paginate mail files (to allow 'clean' printouts).

Although originally developed by Dave Taylor, as of release 2.1 Elm is developed by a cooperative venture of volunteers loosely being called the Elm Development Group. There are approximately 40 developers and an additional 16 testers, participating at various levels of activity.

For further details see:

  • Overview File from Elm Distribution
  • NOTICE File from Elm Distribution (License File)
  • README File from Elm Distribution
  • List of Official Elm FTP Sites
  • List of Official Elm Patches
  • Monthly Posting from the Elm Development Group
  • Elm Frequently Asked Questions with answers.
  • The Elm Development and Testing Groups and how to join.
  • Elm Version 2.3 Manuals via WWW in Hypertext
  • Elm Version 2.4 Manuals via WWW in Hypertext
  • Syd Weinstein, Elm Coordinator / elm@myxa.com
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