Elm email client - Definition and Overview

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.

External links:

• An out of date Elm homepage www.instinct.org/elm/
• The newest version of Elm ftp://ftp.virginia.edu/pub/elm/
• A comparison of Elm with Mutt [1] (http://www.guckes.net/mutt/vs.elm.html)

Example Usage of client