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<h3 align=center>History of newmail</h3>

<p>newmail occurred first inside the Elm mail reader and proved to be
quite useful to console-oriented people.  Over the years it has been
improved and integrated fully into the Elm package.</p>

<p>In 2000 Joey has extracted this tool from the Elm mailer suite and
started its own package for easier maintenance.  Another reason was
the removal of elm from the <a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a>
distribution which would have left Joey without newmail.</p>

<p>Unfortunately the code hasn't been improved so much that it did
understand encoded subject and from lines.  The codebase of Elm also
proved to be quite awkward (due to its age and history) and the
license was not exactly a Free Software license.</p>

<p>Hence, in 2004 the utility was rewritten from scratch and released
using the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General
Public License</a> to preserve its freedom.  Further improvements have
added the functionality to deal with encoded subject and from lines.</p>

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