From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Michael Reilly Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rmail-mbox branch Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:17:30 -0400 Message-ID: <48BD914A.4030604@pajato.com> References: <87zlprvod0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4868CF84.1040005@pajato.com> <48A90589.4020804@pajato.com> <48A91146.60200@pajato.com> <48A968A3.8050806@pajato.com> <48BA1DAE.2030005@pajato.com> <874p51xblf.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <48BC44F3.4030902@pajato.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220383101 25310 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2008 19:18:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 19:18:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Glenn Morris , emacs-devel To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 02 21:19:15 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KabOn-0004Ok-JE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:18:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60703 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KabNo-0006pS-7d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:17:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KabNi-0006of-EG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:17:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KabNg-0006no-PX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:17:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55723 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KabNg-0006ni-DI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:17:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.pajato.com ([68.191.253.210]:42250 helo=copa.pajato.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KabNc-0000Ji-Es; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:17:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (copa.pajato.com [68.191.253.210]) by copa.pajato.com (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m82JHU7m024014; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 15:17:31 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) In-Reply-To: <48BC44F3.4030902@pajato.com> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (copa.pajato.com [68.191.253.210]); Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:17:31 -0400 (EDT) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103435 Archived-At: Paul Michael Reilly wrote: > Chong Yidong wrote: ... > Also, there is one suggestion that Richard made that will facilitate > automatic conversion of Babyl formatted file to mbox format. This one > should probably be completed before we make the switch. It turns out this is already in Pmail. In order to use Pmail without worrying about inflicting any damage to Rmail (RMAIL) do the following: Copy RMAIL to PMAIL and then invoke M-x pmail with 'pmail-preserve-inbox set to t and everything else being equal, i.e. use the same setup for Pmail that you would for Rmail. This will convert your PMAIL file to mbox format automagically and allow you to test Pmail and switch back to Rmail at any point without any loss of messages. -pmr