From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Add Maildir support to RMAIL Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2021 19:21:50 +0300 Message-ID: <83eebmweht.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1627225069.25819@bluehome.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38214"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ane@iki.fi, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: csh Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 25 18:23:03 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m7gu7-0009oz-Gz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2021 18:23:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45332 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m7gu6-0004ky-FU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2021 12:23:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53208) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m7gtA-0003sH-4d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2021 12:22:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41436) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m7gt9-0002Sq-0S; Sun, 25 Jul 2021 12:22:03 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1059 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m7gt8-0005VY-KY; Sun, 25 Jul 2021 12:22:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1627225069.25819@bluehome.net> (message from csh on Sun, 25 Jul 2021 07:57:49 -0700 (PDT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:271615 Archived-At: > From: csh > Cc: ane@iki.fi, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2021 07:57:49 -0700 (PDT) > > > > bash: movemail: command not found... > > > > Then I guess you should install GNU Mailutils. > > I asked you what the package name was. I told you that I cannot find it. > > [liveuser@localhost-live ~]$ dnf search mailutils > Last metadata expiration check: 1:44:35 ago on Sun 25 Jul 2021 09:07:46 AM EDT. > No matches found. Strange. I don't know much about that, but if worse comes to worst, you could download the source tarball and build it yourself, perhaps? > > Btw, I'm not sure I understand completely what kind of Maildir support > > do you need and why. Your original message said: > > > > > I really love the simplicity of reading mail with RMAIL, but most email providers > > no longer use the mbox format for mail. > > My mail is in Maildir format. It is not in mbox format. > > > What do you mean by "email providers", and how do you use that to get > > your email before reading it in Emacs? > > I use bluehome.net, which stores mail in Maildir format, but I am sure Google uses > Maildir format for its inboxes, too. > > Right now, I am using the webmail Webmin interface. Sometimes I use Evolution. Other > times I use Thunderbird. I just used OfflineIMAP to fetch all my mail into ~/Mail/ on > my local machine. So you use those to deliver email to your local machine, and the email is delivered in Maildir format? Then I think it would make sense for you to try to install Mailutils, because its 'movemail' command could fetch email for you and save it in mbox format that Rmail cane read.