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Re: [LI] emacs and mailer
Hi Arn,
I think the problem is slightly different from what you have
stated... you're right about rmail using it's own mailbox format
(which is one of the reasons I gave up rmail and switched to VM), but
Khader was looking for a method to keep his messages in
/var/.../khader itself, instead of in ~/INBOX (which is where VM keeps
it).
Some background: VM keeps the messages in it's own mailbox since it
prepends X-VM- headers to messages which allow it to quickly sort,
select and display messages. I haven't used any other mail program
under Emacs, so don't know about the others, but I can't see any way
of making VM keep messages in the spool file itself.
However, it's quite easy to point most mail clients to that INBOX file
and use it as the spool. I've done it with Pine, Elm, NS Messenger
and even over IMAP -- it works just fine.
Regards,
-- Raju
>>>>> "Arun" == Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Arun> On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 06:19:24PM +0530, Syed Khader Vali
Arun> 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 ??
Arun> emacs has many mailers. rmail is just one of them and rmail
Arun> has its own file format, because it believes that the
Arun> berkely mbox format is inefficient.
Arun> In order to keep your mbox intact, use vm or gnus as your
Arun> mailer.
Arun> -Arun
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