eho@cognito.Princeton.EDU (Eric Ho) (05/27/89)
Hi, 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 ? Any pointers will be much appreciated. Eric Ho Princeton Cognitive Science Lab., Princeton University email = eho@phoenix.princeton.edu voice = 609-987-2819 -- regards. -eric-
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