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The elm mail system

  elm is a screen-oriented public domain electronic mail processing system. In interactive use, the main header index and mini-menu of commands are displayed upon initial invocation and at any point when the program is waiting for input.

You can invoke elm by typing elm at the shell prompt.

You can easily send a mail ( m), reply ( r) or forward ( f) a mail, save it to a folder ( s) or delete an incoming mail ( d), ( ?) to get help.
Aliases are stored in the file ~/.elm/aliases.text, which can be edited by any text editor. After having edited this file, the internal alias database has to be updated by the command newalias . In the latest elm version the option a enters the alias menu. Editing the aliases.text file is then possible, in which case the update of the database takes place automatically. An elm alias may also contain a list of previously defined aliases.
As elm is installed at CERN, i.e. with the underlying software package metamail multimedia mail according to the internet standard MIME (Multipart Internet Mail Extensions) is possible using in the message body the command: [include filename MIME_Content-Type Encoding]

e.g. [include /path/to/my/photo image/gif base64].

A full postscript documentation of Elm is available on dxcern, directory: /usr/local/doc/postscript/elm2.4-doc. Also on asis, in the postscript file /afs/cern.ch/asis/share/usr.local/doc/elm/Ref or via anonymous ftp at asisftp:/pub/doc/elm/Ref.



Alan Silverman
Wed Apr 12 16:54:02 METDST 1995