From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Elm (email client)
Elm (email client)
Elm Bill Pemberton of the University of Virginia currently
maintains elm. A former Elm Coordinator was Sydney
Weinstein from the Myxa Corporation.
Release history
To get an idea of the period when elm was used and de-
veloped, this is a list of major.minor releases, included
the last .patch level.
• 1986-11-30 first release?
• 1987-03-08 elm2
Original author(s) Dave Taylor • 1989-04-12 elm2.2
• 1990-12-16 elm-2.3.0
Developer(s) Bill Pemberton
• 1993-01-05 elm-2.4
Initial release 1986 • 1996-01-26 elm2.4.25
Stable release 2.5.8 (August 18, 2005 (2005-08-18)) [±] • 1999-03-24 elm2.5.0
• 2004-05-21 elm2.5.7
Operating system Any Unix-like • 2005-08-18 elm2.5.8
Type Email client
License BSD-like See also
Website http://www.instinct.org/elm/ • Comparison of email clients
Elm is a text-based email client commonly found on Unix
Elm, References
systems. It became popular as one of the first email
clients to use a text user interface, and as a utility with [1] "Dave Taylor’s Biographical Information".
freely-available source code. The name elm originated http://www.intuitive.com/bio.shtml. Retrieved
from the phrase ELELectronic Mail. 2008-02-06.
Dave Taylor (currently with Intuitive Systems) devel-
oped elm while working for Hewlett-Packard.[1] Develop- External links
ment later passed to a team of volunteers. The latest (as
• Elm homepage
of January 2010) public release occurred in August 2005,
• The newest version of Elm
version 2.5.8 (available via the site below).
• A comparison of Elm with Mutt
Other popular email readers which followed elm and
• elm packages on funet.fi
took it as an inspiration include the Mutt and Pine pro-
grams. From about 1995 elm slipped in popularity and
functionality, and it now sees relatively little use.
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