Elm, a text-based e-mail client commonly found on Unix systems, became popular as one of the first e-mail clients to use curses-like screen displays, and as a utility with freely-available source code. The name elm originated from the phrase ELectronic Mail.
David Taylor developed elm while working for Hewlett-Packard. Development later passed to a team of volunteers. The latest (as of Jul 2007) public release occurred in August 2005, version 2.5.8 (available via the FTP site below).
Other popular e-mail 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.
history of releases
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.
- 1986-11-30 first release?
- 1987-03-08 elm2
- 1989-04-12 elm2.2
- 1990-12-16 elm-2.3.0.tar.Z
- 1993-01-05 elm-2.4.tar.Z
- 1996-01-26 elm2.4.25.tar.Z
- 1999-03-24 elm2.5.0.tar.gz
- 2004-05-21 elm2.5.7.tar.gz
- 2005-08-18 elm2.5.8.tar.gz
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