From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help setting up POP3 email (rmail) Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 09:28:42 +0100 Message-ID: <20160227082842.GA30139@tuxteam.de> References: <87wppvc52x.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <87d1rlu0v9.fsf@debian.uxu> <8737sfjlce.fsf@debian.uxu> <87r3fyiyri.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456563830 15737 80.91.229.3 (27 Feb 2016 09:03:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 09:03:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 27 10:03:45 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aZamu-000660-JA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 10:03:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53934 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZamt-0004IE-U1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 04:03:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47943) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZamj-0004Hr-4a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 04:03:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZamf-0000Dr-17 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 04:03:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:58257 helo=tomasium.tuxteam.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZame-00009N-Qu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 04:03:28 -0500 Original-Received: from tomas by tomasium.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aZaF0-0007wf-UB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 09:28:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87r3fyiyri.fsf@debian.uxu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109336 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 05:05:21AM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote: > [...] For example Rmail stores > every mail in a single file! This makes it a pain > doing anything with it with common shell tools. It is > very un-Unixy which isn't a matter of principle but an > obstacle dealing with it [...] I doubt you know what you are talking about. I'm not myself a fan of maildir (one file per message plus hiding metadata in the file name -- I just don't like that) -- but it's as Unixy as it gets (qmail, D.J. Bernstein, ca 1990-some). > Any questions? > > :) No, Sir ;-) - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlbRXjoACgkQBcgs9XrR2ka6EwCfedTnpAxpezepBUSuxPhs518l bfMAn0S7hmCkGCuSTdZi4yWK4GrqWTLM =WBLb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----