Elm Millennium Edition is a text-based mail client. There are two branches: Elm 2.4ME+, which is based on Elm 2.4, and Elm ME+ 2.5, which also incorporates some code from Elm 2.5. Elm Millennium Edition contains enhanced MIME and character set support. A subset of UTF-8 (Unicode) is handled. It can read mail from a local mbox and POP and IMAP folders and can pass mail to the PGP or GPG programs. It can also view digests as a mailbox and reassemble fragmented (message/partial) messages. It includes modules for TLS/SSL, iconv, and SMTP.
| Tags | Communications Email Email Clients (MUA) Post-Office IMAP POP3 Text based |
|---|---|
| Licenses | The Elm Mail System General Public License |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux Other Unix |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release adds RFC 3676 (content type text/plain; format=flowed) support for builtin++ pager. Rewrapping of flowed paragraphs is not supported when replying or forwarding mail or when viewing it with external pager. Flowed format is not supported either when mail is sent. This release adds two new commands to builtin++ pager ('W' for wrapping and 'w' for toggling paragraph width), and adds "pager-indicate-wrapping", "pager-paragraph-width", "@charset", and "editor-elmrc-propline" elmrc options. A crash when viewing a thread is fixed. There are other changes.


Release Notes: This release collects some backported fixes from Elm ME+ 2.5. It changes the handling of dotlock ({mailbox}.lock) files, adds a "local-lockfile-pidcheck" global elm.rc option, and adds some other changes and bugfixes.


Release Notes: This release changes elmregister, removes obsolete man or catman pages, adds handling of the "$" (or F5) command letter to duplicate removal (Ed) and A)ssemble message fragments -screens, and adds the "S" status letter file and folder browser.


Release Notes: This release adds [send-as-charset ...] and [no keywords] commands (or keywords) for the editor buffer, changes the handling of the dotlock ({mailbox}.lock) file, adds a "local-lockfile-pidcheck" global elm.rc option, and adds other changes and bugfixes.


Release Notes: This release changes the implementation of the "pager", "editor", and "alteditor" elmrc variables, fixes some bugs (including a crash when a file with a too-long filename is attached), and changes elm.rc help texts.
Recent comments
20 Feb 2008 02:49
Re: Don't even bother with elm 2.5.6
%% yes - thank you for looking after ELM
> Nice to hear that someone is using
Well, I have been using elm at least since (I looked from my old mail folders, and found mail dated Mon, 7 Nov 1994 17:21:38 +0200 (EET) that was send with ELM 2.4 PL23).
And after that, I've been using elm :) ... And I've been verry verry happy with it. So PLEASE, keep it up ;) ... I could even try help you if there is something I could do.
19 Jun 2006 09:27
Elm Millennium Edition
> Declared that Elm ME + is "Elm Millenium
> Edition". Courtesy Vesa-Matti J Kari.
Changed spelling of "Millenium" to "Millennium".
In my English to Finnish dictionary there is a word
"millenium". And there is no word "millennium" in
the dictionary. But apparently my dictionary is wrong.
11 Mar 2006 09:59
Re: ELM 2.4ME+ ftp site
> WWW page
> www.ozone.fmi.fi/KEH/
> probably remain available.
ozone2.fmi.fi (www.ozone.fmi.fi/KEH/) is powered off.
Use www.elmme-mailer.org/ (www.elmme-mailer.org/) instead.
09 Sep 2005 10:00
Re: ELM 2.4ME+ ftp site
>
> Seems that anonymous ftp (and
> ftp.ozone.fmi.fi) will be removed.
>
ozone.fmi.fi (ftp.ozone.fmi.fi) disks seems to have dead.
Use
ftp.elmme-mailer.org: directory elmme-mailer.org/src/elm-2.4ME+/
instead of
(ftp.)ozone.fmi.fi: directory KEH/
for Elm 2.4ME+.
There is also
ftp.elmme-mailer.org: directory elmme-mailer.org/src/elm-ME+2.5/
for ME+ 2.5.
22 Jul 2005 06:25
Elm Millenium Edition
Declared that Elm ME + is "Elm Millenium Edition". Courtesy Vesa-Matti J Kari (www.helsinki.fi/~vmkari/).