Acme Mail

This guide introduces acmemail, a lightweight, flexible mail client for Plan 9.

Setting up email

To read/send email on Plan 9:

See acmemail(1) http://man.9front.org/1/acmemail, plumber(4) http://man.9front.org/4/plumber, and upasfs(4) http://man.9front.org/4/upasfs

; plumber ; upas/fs ; acme

Then in the window tag, type Mail (capital M) and middle-click the word to execute it.

If you are running 9front locally, you can reduce latency by using rimport instead of rcpu:

; server=cloud9p.org ; rimport $server /net ; rimport $server /mail ; rimport $server /sys/ ; plumber; upas/fs; acme

Remember to replace cloud9p.org with your actual server.

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