On 2018-11-29 08:04 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 8:45 AM Mayuresh Kathe <[email protected]>
wrote:
hello,
is it possible to use "upas" without relying on acme?
it might be uncomfortable (relatively speaking), but is it possible?
Yes. This is quite reasonable. To a first order approximation, `upas`
is a mail transfer agent, for moving mail around across a network (or
just into a mailbox on a local system) while Acme provides a mail
client (a "mail user agent") based on a filesystem.
There used to be, and probably still is, another mail client just
called 'mail' that could be used to read and send mail, but that is
also independent of upas.
is that "mail" you mention similar to "mailx" under unix-like systems?
the problem is one of not wanting a captive user-interface to the
mailing sub-system.
i really hate moving out of the text console and away from the
command-line.
yes, i really don't mind having multiple consoles around instead of the
unixy way of switching terminals using ctrl+fn keys.
thanks,
~mayuresh
