Re: [LI] emacs and mailer

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 06:19:24PM +0530, Syed Khader Vali wrote:
> Hi there,
> I would like to use Emacs as my mailer. 
> Is there any way I can make it use *only* /var/spool/mail/username rather
> than emacs cleaning up /var/spool/mail/username and saving it in ~/RMAILER ??
> Mutt simply reads /var/spool/mail/username and modifies it as necessary !!
> I want that functionality in emacs also. Anybody knows how I do that ??
> I am sure it must be possible !! Right ??

emacs has many mailers. rmail is just one of them and rmail has its own
file format, because it believes that the berkely mbox format is
inefficient.

In order to keep your mbox intact, use vm or gnus as your mailer.

	-Arun

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