wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) (05/29/89)
In article <EHO.89May27015758@cognito.Princeton.EDU> eho@cognito.Princeton.EDU (Eric Ho) writes: > I heard that there is a VM mail reader for GNU Emacs. Can anyone tell me > what are the goodies (i.e. a general description) & where I can get it ? "VM" was posted here within the last week or so by Kyle Jones. Here are the message ID's: Message-ID: <8905232131.AA24607@talos.uucp> Message-ID: <8905232131.AA24619@talos.uucp> Message-ID: <8905232132.AA24632@talos.uucp> Message-ID: <8905241858.AA04411@talos.uucp> "VM" is a mail reader for GNUemacs that seems to be of about the same power as GNUemacs "rmail". It's chief advantage is that it uses plain old mail files as its storage format. To me, this seems like a major win, since you can easily interact with the tons of other UNIX tools that already know about mail folders. For outbound mail (including replies, etc), it uses the same mail-mode stuff as "rmail". I've been playing with "VM" for several days and am pretty pleased. I don't miss "rmail" at all (especially the part about it instantly converting stuff to babyl format without asking me :-(). Naturally, I'd like to see a few thing different in "VM" (isn't that the nature of emacs users? :-), but all in all it's a major elisp package that's well-done. Public thanks to Kyle for this one. -- Bill Carpenter att!ho5cad!wjc or attmail!bill
drich@dialogic.UUCP (Dan Rich) (08/31/89)
I seem to remember seeing a copy of a mail reader called VM go by in
this group in the last couple of months. At the time I grabbed a
copy, but it got lost in a file system shuffle. Can anyone tell me
the source so that I can get another copy?
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On 30 Aug 89 19:31:34 GMT, drich@dialogic.UUCP (Dan Rich) said:
drich> I seem to remember seeing a copy of a mail reader called VM go by in
drich> this group in the last couple of months. At the time I grabbed a
drich> copy, but it got lost in a file system shuffle. Can anyone tell me
drich> the source so that I can get another copy?
Source is cfdl.larc.nasa.gov:pub/gnu/vm-4.40.tar.Z as of 17 Aug 1989.
The Ohio State archive (tut.cis.ohio-state.edu and osu-cis) currently
has a copy of vm-4.39.tar.Z .
Enjoy!
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UUCP: {3comvax,auspex,sun}!bridge2!mdbolaf@tub.UUCP (Olaf Heimburger) (08/31/89)
Mark> On 30 Aug 89 19:31:34 GMT, drich@dialogic.UUCP (Dan Rich) said: drich> I seem to remember seeing a copy of a mail reader called VM go by in drich> this group in the last couple of months. At the time I grabbed a drich> copy, but it got lost in a file system shuffle. Can anyone tell me drich> the source so that I can get another copy? Mark> Source is cfdl.larc.nasa.gov:pub/gnu/vm-4.40.tar.Z as of 17 Aug 1989. Mark> The Ohio State archive (tut.cis.ohio-state.edu and osu-cis) currently Mark> has a copy of vm-4.39.tar.Z . For those who can't ftp nor anon uucp, is there a chance to get the latest vm via e-mail? Thanks, in advance --olaf -- * Olaf Heimburger, The ISOTEXT Project, TU Berlin (West), Dep. of CS * uucp: ...!pyramid!tub!olaf (US) ...!mcvax!unido!tub!olaf (Europe) * <olaf@tub.UUCP> <olaf@db0tui6.BITNET> <olaf@tub.BITNET> FAX: +49 30 31425156 * >>> Have you hugged your Computer today?