[comp.emacs] A GNU MailTool?

jipping@cs.hope.EDU (Mike Jipping) (01/03/89)

[If this has been asked and answered before, SORRY -- I'm new to the list.]

I've been hacking at the GNU Emacs mail utilities and am pretty
impressed.  With a minimum of effort, I've got replies and all customized
the way I like 'em.  I'm on a Sun (OS 4.0) running GNU 18.52.

My question relates to mail reading using Sunview (or Suntools for the
non-4.0-ites ;-)  I like the button interface of Sun's mailtool and use
it to read and archive my mail.  It's pretty slick -- if you include the
menu-based folder system and all.  Except, of course, for the display
interface -- that handy ol' Sun "textedit" editor.  

Has anyone worked that Emacs magic on a Gnu mailtool facility?

What would be nice is a Sun mailtool with an Emacs display interface.  Or
a spiffy emacstool-with-buttons that makes Emacs work like the mailtool.
I LOVE the (Sunview) menu-based folder system for archiving mail, so the
interface should include something along these lines.  I'm on the verge
of tinkering with one myself, but don't want to waste my time...

Thanks.  

      Mike Jipping
      Hope College
      Department of Computer Science
      jipping@cs.hope.edu