[comp.emacs] Mail modes?

scott@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Holt) (03/21/90)

In article <7325@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0818a@prism.gatech.EDU (Paul E. Robichaux) writes:
>As a recent convert to EMACS from (gasp) vi, I find myself more and more 
>amazed at the number and kinds of tricks it can do. I've been told that
>mailer subsystems ("mail-mode", maybe?) exist to run under emacs, but we
>don't seem to have any installed here.
>
>I would appreciate pointers to mail reading/sending/browsing accessories.
>Anon FTP is ok, as are listservers. Thanks!
>
>-Paul

M-x rmail

This should invoke the emacs mail reader described in the Emacs
reference manuals. There may be others, but I am not sure. Also,

M-x rn

Invokes an emacs based news reader. 

Both of these packages are provided with the standard emacs distribution. 

- Scott
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kjones@talos.pm.com (Kyle Jones) (03/23/90)

gt0818a@prism.gatech.EDU (Paul E. Robichaux) writes:
 > As a recent convert to EMACS from (gasp) vi, I find myself more and more 
 > amazed at the number and kinds of tricks it can do. I've been told that
 > mailer subsystems ("mail-mode", maybe?) exist to run under emacs, but we
 > don't seem to have any installed here.

RMAIL comes with the distribution, but VM is closer the standard mail(1)
you're probably using now.  And VM doesn't convert your mail into a
format that's unreadable by that same mail(1) program, as RMAIL does,
should you decide that you don't like it.

The current version of VM is 4.41, and it's available via anonymous FTP
from xanth.cs.odu.edu, directory pub/vm, file vm-4.41.tar.Z.