From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: reading mail with emacs Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 18:57:28 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87bnrpk5mv.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407862826 28966 80.91.229.3 (12 Aug 2014 17:00:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:00:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 12 19:00:21 2014 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 1XHFQq-0001Em-71 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:00:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43248 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHFQp-0007me-Sg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:00:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:dxjt0hKBd/ejzgTy8kAJasja/mM= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206903 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:99179 Archived-At: "visaris tds.net" writes: > Whereas I have been reading mail with emacs for > decades, I did a new install (I'm a gentoo user) and > now what once automagically worked nolonger does... > Emacs seems to function -- exept for mail. Well, how did you read mail in Emacs for all those decades? > Although I have fethcmail and exim running, and > although mail does arive in /var/spool/exim/input, > the format is that each message is split into a > header file and then the body of the message. > > M-x rmail does not get mail from /var/spool/exim/input. I use Gnus but before that I used Rmail, and what I remember it collected all the mails in one single file in the user home directory, a file with the name RMAIL as well. I'm not familiar with the /var/spool/exim/input method, but if that is a file that Rmail can parse then you should tell Rmail to look in that direction. If it isn't Rmail-compatible, you must respool it to bridge the gap, if you want to use Rmail, that is. I would recommend Gnus, which talks to several mail and news backends, and thus have all but a swiss army knife ready to spool and respool back and forth between all those methods. You probably already used the Emacs message-mode to send messages (mails), which I just recently learned is part of Gnus as well. Also, there is gnu.emacs.gnus where you can get help if this group can't help you (but I think it can). -- underground experts united