From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Add Maildir support to RMAIL Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 08:29:20 +0300 Message-ID: References: <1627214524.13283@bluehome.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21265"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.7+183 (3d24855) (2021-05-28) 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 Mon Jul 26 09:10:13 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 1m7ukf-0005Mj-Dp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2021 09:10:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59300 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m7uke-0001i5-Fs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2021 03:10:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33078) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m7ui4-0006bZ-Dq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2021 03:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:36895) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m7ui2-0001vZ-Oa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2021 03:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.202.241.46]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000057F39.0000000060FE5F11.00005EAC; Mon, 26 Jul 2021 00:06:57 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: csh , emacs-devel@gnu.org, ane@iki.fi Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1627214524.13283@bluehome.net> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:271634 Archived-At: * csh [2021-07-25 15:49]: > I really love the simplicity of reading mail with RMAIL, but most > email providers no longer use the mbox format for mail. Is there > any way someone could get RMAIL working with Maildir mailboxes? It does not matter how is email stored at email provider's side as how already explained by Eli you may use programs like `movemail' or `imapsync' or `isync' or `fetchmail' to move it from provider to local computer. Or are you reading email straight through shell on the remote server? Though that all does not solve the issue that Emacs does not handle Maildirs. There is one attempt to handle maildirs in the library: ;; Author: Nic Ferrier ;; Url: http://github.com/nicferrier/emacs-maildir I use that library sometimes, though I consider that library incomplete. Due to lack of complete Maildir support in Emacs I am using `mutt' email client within terminal, that works well. It invokes emacsclient from Emacs terminal or vterm library. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/