Top Document: SGI apps Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -6- What's a good graphical text editor for SGIs? Next Document: -8- What's a good POP server for SGIs? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Z-Mail is a commercial product written by Z-Code and redistributed by SGI. IRIX 5.x includes MediaMail, a subset of Z-Mail. Both are graphical, MIME-compatible (MIME, described in RFC1521, is a standard for enclosing multimedia material in your mail) and have a text-only mode. ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/software/mail/zmail-vs-mediamail.ps.gz describes the differences between Z-Mail and MediaMail. Z-Mail has its own WWW site (http://www.ncd.com/Z-Code/zcode.html) and newsgroup (comp.mail.zmail). The free programs Elm and Pine use text-based menus. They are easy to use, powerful and can easily be run in a separate window. They can be configured to use 'metamail' for MIME support. Elm can be FTPed from ftp://dsinc.dsi.com/elm/, Pine from ftp.cac.washington.edu:/pine/ and 'metamail' from ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/. Z-Mail/MediaMail includes 'metamail', so if you use both Z-Mail/MediaMail and Elm or Pine or another free mail program, you can save yourself some trouble by configuring the latter to use the former's 'metamail'. Elm has an FAQ in ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.mail.elm/. Packages which make Elm work nicely with IRIX 4.0.x's WorkSpace and IRIX 5.2's Indigo Magic are at ftp://proton.chem.yale.edu/pub/ and ftp://proton.chem.yale.edu/pub/. Elm's autoreply/ arepdaemon subsystem has a bad security hole, so don't install those binaries. (They have been removed from v. 2.4.24 and later.) The rest of Elm is fine. Both programs have newsgroups, comp.mail.elm and comp.mail.pine. 'mh' is a free, command-line oriented Mail Handling system. FTP the source code from ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh/ and patches for IRIX from ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/software/mail/. If you build 'mh' you can use 'xmh', a graphical mailer, which is part of Xwindows and thus comes with IRIX. 'mh' has a newsgroup, comp.mail.mh. Finally, Chris Lewis' "Unix Email Software - a Survey" lists many more mail programs. FTP it from ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/setup/unix/. User Contributions:Top Document: SGI apps Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -6- What's a good graphical text editor for SGIs? Next Document: -8- What's a good POP server for SGIs? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu (The SGI FAQ group)
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