Elm (email client)
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Elm is a text-based email client that is commonly found on Unix systems. It gained popularity because it was one of the first email clients to use curses-like screen displays, and the source code was freely available.
It was developed by David Taylor while working for Hewlett-Packard. Development later passed to a team of volunteers. The latest public release was in February 2004, version 2.5.7 (available via the ftp site below).
Other popular email readers which followed—and were inspired by—Elm include the Mutt and Pine programs. Pine is a (unofficial) recursive acronym for "Pine Is Not Elm".
The current maintainer of Elm is Bill Pemberton.
See also
External links
- An out of date Elm homepage (http://www.instinct.org/elm/)
- The newest version of Elm (ftp://ftp.virginia.edu/pub/elm/)
- A comparison of Elm with Mutt (http://www.guckes.net/mutt/vs.elm.html)