Re: Rmail-mbox branch

[Paul Michael Reilly <pmr@pajato.com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
>> CC: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, pmr@pajato.com, cyd@stupidchicken.com,
>> 	emacs-devel@gnu.org, rgm@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:41:18 -0400
>>
>> Rmail in Emacs 23 does work, and Pmail doesn't work well enough yet.
>> I can say that with assurance because I just tried it for a couple
>> of days.
> 
> What were the problems?  Can you please publish at least their
> summary?

You make a persuasive case for using the bug tracking system.  I don't 
suppose someone could create a "category" for lack of a better term to 
keep bug reports on Pmail, or tell me how I should do it if I even can?

In a nutshell, and off the of my head, the problems have been: 
pmail-output will not output to an Rmail/babyl file (not fixed); expunge 
would lose track of which message was the current message (fixed); 
message decoding works in Rmail but not in Pmail (this is the current 
big issue); reply did not correctly hide the X-BABYL... header (fixed); 
  invisible headers become visible in unexpected ways, like when using 
regions operations on a message (not fixed) and various byte compiler 
issues (fixed).  I'm sure that a few have been forgotten already but 
that should give you a feel for the issues.

By all means give it a try.  You should be able to do so and seamlessly 
switch back to Rmail when you find a deal breaker, just make sure you 
preserve your inboxes when using Pmail.

-pmr