worley@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Dale Worley) (02/16/89)
Personally, I find RMAIL quite winning enough. The only complaint that I've seen that I think holds water is that if some poor sod runs RMAIL by accident, his messages are forever inaccessible to "mail" and the other Unix mail tools. There should be some sort of interlock against this, or some well-advertised way to undo the conversion of mbox into RMAIL. It's about the only Emacs command that you can't "try just once". Dale
jeff1@garfield.mun.edu (Jeff Sparkes) (02/17/89)
In article <8902161548.AA17984@galaxy.compass.com>, think!compass!worley@EDDIE (Dale Worley) writes: >Personally, I find RMAIL quite winning enough. The only complaint >that I've seen that I think holds water is that if some poor sod runs >RMAIL by accident, his messages are forever inaccessible to "mail" and >the other Unix mail tools. There should be some sort of interlock >against this, or some well-advertised way to undo the conversion of >mbox into RMAIL. It's about the only Emacs command that you can't >"try just once". > >Dale I wrote a trivial function to do just that, and I know barely anything about lisp. My main complaint about rmail is that it's too easy to read messages. I'd want a summary mode, which allows me to go back and forth over the summary, and explicitly select messages. My other complaint is that it uses one file to store everything in. I have to read (and maybe write) the entire file just look at one message. Oh, well, maybe one day I'll actually write the mailer I've been talking about. Jeff Sparkes uunet!garfield!jeff1 Television deals in volume, not quality. jeff1@garfield.mun.edu Look at your TV. There's a knob for jeff1@garfield.mun.cdn volume, but none for quality. - Royal Canadian Air Farce
fox@cs.cs.columbia.edu (David Fox) (02/20/89)
In article <5088@garfield.MUN.EDU> jeff1@garfield.mun.edu (Jeff Sparkes) writes: In article <8902161548.AA17984@galaxy.compass.com>, think!compass!worley@EDDIE (Dale Worley) writes: > My main complaint about rmail is that it's too easy to > read messages. I'd want a summary mode, which allows me to go back > and forth over the summary, and explicitly select messages. Try this: (setq rmail-summary-mode-hook '(lambda nil (define-key rmail-summary-mode-map "\C-n" 'forward-line) (define-key rmail-summary-mode-map "\C-p" 'previous-line))) > Jeff Sparkes uunet!garfield!jeff1 Television deals in volume, not quality. > jeff1@garfield.mun.edu Look at your TV. There's a knob for > jeff1@garfield.mun.cdn volume, but none for quality. - Royal Canadian Air Farce ^^^^ David Fox "They got one marked brightness, fox@cs.columbia.edu but it don't work!" - Gallagher