Elm (email client)

Elm
Original author(s) Dave Taylor
Developer(s) Bill Pemberton
Initial release 1986 (1986)
Stable release 2.5.8 (August 18, 2005 (2005-08-18)) [±]
Operating system Any Unix-like
Type Email client
License BSD-like
Website www.instinct.org/elm/

Elm is a text-based email client commonly found on Unix systems. It became popular as one of the first email clients to use a text user interface, and as a utility with freely available source code. The name elm originated from the phrase ELectronic Mail.

Dave Taylor (currently with Intuitive Systems) developed elm while working for Hewlett-Packard.[1] Development later passed to a team of volunteers. The latest (as of 21 May 2014) public release was version 2.5.8 in August 2005.

Other popular email readers which followed elm and took it as an inspiration include the Mutt and Pine programs. From about 1995 elm slipped in popularity and functionality, and it now sees relatively little use.

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 developed, this is a list of major.minor releases, included the last .patch level.

Unofficial versions

Volunteer developers have forked the Elm code several times, producing modern versions of Elm with fixes and enhancements not in the official development branch. Among the more popular of these distributions are Kari Hurtta's "Millenium Edition" Elm 2.4ME+ and Elm ME+ 2.5.x, both of which build upon Michael Elkins' extensions of Elm 2.4.24.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Dave Taylor's Biographical Information". Retrieved 2008-02-06.

External links

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