The mail handler elm is interactive, menu-driven, and written by Dave Taylor
of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. By following the on-screen
directions and clicking on buttons, it lets you meet most of your needs.
While it is not as powerful or integrated as the Emacs mail
facility, it is friendlier and easier for a beginning user. In the
simplest mode, you go through your mailbox (or other folder), by just
saying elm and following directions:
% elm Just say elm. Mailbox is '/usr/mail/rubin', 2 messages Elm tells you all this. 1 Feb 28 Rubin Landau subject Letter 1. 2 Feb 28 Mail Delivery Subs Returned mail Letter 2. You can use any of the following commands: Elm's directions. d)elete or u)ndelete mail, m)ail a message, r)eply or f)orward mail, q)uit, To read message, press <return> j = move down, k = move up, ?= help
You now use the arrow or move keys to highlight the letter of
interest. Then you give a subcommand to read, reply, save, or delete the
letter. In a more advanced mode you give options directly on the
command line. For example, to send mail to jan:
% elm -s "subject" jan@thomas.hal.com Send letter to jan on subject.
Elm then puts you in an editor while you compose your
letter and prompts you for needed flags. As with the mail
command, you can also redirect a file as standard input
% elm -s "subject" anita < junk.file Send junk to anita.