From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rmail-mbox branch Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:27:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zlprvod0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4868CF84.1040005@pajato.com> <48A90589.4020804@pajato.com> <87iqtxd3ra.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <48AA72F4.50802@pajato.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219250105 16693 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2008 16:35:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:35:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Michael Reilly Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 20 18:35:58 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 1KVqf6-0001y0-7x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:35:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49700 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVqe8-0002J4-Qf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:34:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVqWy-00035v-Oa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:27:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVqWx-00033l-7Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50970 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVqWw-00033E-Uw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-04.arnet.com.ar ([200.45.191.26]:43514) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KVqWu-0004Bi-BL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:27:29 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 32521 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2008 16:25:23 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ceviche.home) (190.30.120.236) by 0 with SMTP; 20 Aug 2008 16:25:23 -0000 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4EC7CB404F; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:27:09 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <48AA72F4.50802@pajato.com> (Paul Michael Reilly's message of "Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:15:00 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) 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:102732 Archived-At: > Here's my conundrum. I'm married to IMAP, for better or worse. I have my > mail on a very reliable RAID5, backed up, fast server. One under my Adding proper IMAP support to Rmail is between difficult and impossible, but if you limit yourself to using the IMAP protocol in order to download your messages (i.e. as if it were just POP), then it should be pretty simple and indeed using GNU mailutils's code may give you this feature for free. We do want to bring Emacs's and mailutils's movemail closer. Stefan