Looking for a DOS command-line e-mail client

Gordon JC Pearce gordon at gjcp.net
Fri Sep 3 17:06:03 CDT 2004


Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Wayne Talbot wrote:
> 
> 
>>Looking for DOS command-line e-mail client
>>
>>Have you tried pegasus mail?
> 
> 
> Is it command line?
> 
> So far I've searched far and wide and pursued half a dozen well-meaning
> but erroneous suggestions for various packages and I just don't think such
> an application exists.
> 

Does it have to be DOS?  There are any number of command-line Linux mail 
clients.  Maybe you could port one across.

The thing is, by the time that Internet mail was becoming popular, DOS 
was already as good as dead.  Time to let it go gently into the night, I 
think.

Gordon.



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