lms@think.com (Luis Miguel Silveira) (02/01/91)
Could somebody please post or e-mail me something about the possible advantages/disadvantages of using VM versus using RMAIL for reading mail from within emacs ? Thank you -Miguel -- =============================================================================== Luis Miguel Silveira e-mail : lms@sobolev.mit.edu (or) lms@think.com Research Laboratory for Electronics --- Massachusetts Institute of Technology ===============================================================================
kyle@uunet.UU.NET (Kyle Jones) (02/02/91)
lms@think.com (Luis Miguel Silveira) writes: > Could somebody please post or e-mail me something about the possible > advantages/disadvantages of using VM versus using RMAIL for reading > mail from within emacs ? For me, the most important advantage of VM is that it uses that standard UNIX mailbox format. I can use standard UNIX tools and mailers on VM folders interchangably, and not get any surprises. If RMAIL had used the standrad mailbox format, or if I thought its code could have been converted to do so without excessive pain, VM probably never would have been written. At least not by me. I would have worked on improving RMAIL instead. Beyond that you'll have to ask others to compare and contrast VM and RMAIL. I didn't use RMAIL long enough to learn all that it can do.