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From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
Subject: Re: rmail: dealing with mailing lists ?
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:04:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878xv9x67b.fsf@olgas.newt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87d5km82e1.fsf@stupidchicken.com

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

> Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:
>
>>> You'll be better off using gnus.
>>
>> I just do but I want to test other emacs mails modes. Rmail is
>> one of them and the oldest one AFAIK. I want to know why there so
>> many people still using it nowadays.
>
> Rmail is simple to use, but does not do fancy things like mail
> splitting.  If you need stuff like that, use gnus.

Or procmail.

I use both MH-E (http://mh-e.sf.net/) and Gnus myself.

-- 
Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>  http://www.newt.com/wohler/  GnuPG ID:610BD9AD
Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian!
If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-27 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.16925.1133102005.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-11-27 14:53 ` rmail: dealing with mailing lists ? leon
2005-11-27 15:50   ` Xavier Maillard
     [not found]   ` <mailman.16931.1133106912.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-11-27 16:37     ` leon
2005-11-27 17:04       ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-11-27 16:46     ` Chong Yidong
2005-11-27 19:04       ` Bill Wohler [this message]
2005-11-27 20:21         ` Raimund.Kohl
2005-11-27 20:31           ` Bill Wohler
2005-11-27 17:14     ` Anselm Helbig
2005-11-28  1:40     ` Christopher C. Stacy
2005-11-27 14:27 Xavier Maillard
2005-11-27 17:14 ` Henrik Enberg
2005-11-27 18:06   ` Xavier Maillard
2005-11-27 18:22     ` Henrik Enberg

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