Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site arizona.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!mit-eddi!mit-vax!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuxa!houxm!ihnp4!arizona!whm From: whm@arizona.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: What's better than ucbmail? Message-ID: <2332@arizona.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Jun-83 20:42:48 EDT Article-I.D.: arizona.2332 Posted: Sun Jun 5 20:42:48 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Jun-83 23:07:39 EDT Organization: CS Dept, U of Arizona, Tucson Lines: 30 What's the state of the art in mail reading/posting programs for Unix? During "peak" periods, I receive about 100 messages per day on the average, 0 of which of "mailing list" traffic, and about a fourth of which require some action on my part, usually a reply. I'm running a slightly hacked version 2.1 of ucbmail, and it's starting to buckle under the strain. I understand that the "current" version of ucbmail is a considerable improvement over what I've got. I've looked at MH, and although it's a definite improvement in some areas, it seems to lose in others. Are MH and ucbmail the only two modern Unix mail systems in use? Oops, I forgot the various Emacs rmail programs, but I've used some of them, and I haven't found one yet that I'd deem a suitable replacement for ucbmail. (How about mh rmail, I don't know anything about it.) So, let me ask, what's better than what I've mentioned? If you've got or know of something better, let me know. I'll entertain arguments on why x is better than ucbmail. In particular, I'd be interested in informed arguments on why [you think that] MH is better than ucbmail. Tell me what you think and I'll summarize what I find out and report back. Bill Mitchell whm.arizona@rand-relay {kpno,mcnc,utah-cs}!arizona!whm p.s. Has anybody hacked up ucbmail so that it will reread the spool file on demand? Anybody getting ready to? I'd pay hard cash for such an enhancement, not to mention hard cash for a better mail system.