From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: help: RMAIL file format ?? Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:30:37 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84el6byzsy.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045215289 21039 80.91.224.249 (14 Feb 2003 09:34:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:34:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18jcF5-0005Su-00 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:34:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18jcFi-0002Yh-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 04:35:26 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd951faea.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951faea.dip.t-dialin.net (217.81.250.234) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1045215078 46998196 217.81.250.234 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 Cancel-Lock: sha1:JMSV7vcPluCSZyX5Py4wVhEprlI= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110180 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6684 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6684 harel@barzilai.org (hbmath) writes: > While usually very reliable, my unix shell provider dreamhost.com just had > some major attack againt it and all the mail files are jumbled up. > > No longer can I access "Mail" from the shell; I get > > Mail: /home/barzilai/Maildir/: Is a directory > > Well, "pine" works, but I've used emacs since 1988 and don't > care for pine at all..so I try using rmail-get-new-mail > with control-u so I can specify file format... Maybe it's easiest to use pine to save all them articles to mbox format. -- A turnip curses Elvis