From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: rmail: dealing with mailing lists ? Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:04:59 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87veyerphg.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: <86u0dy9m73.fsf@gmail.com> <86irue9he0.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133111286 28161 80.91.229.2 (27 Nov 2005 17:08:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 17:08:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 27 18:08:03 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EgPzw-0003o6-3Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:07:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EgPzv-0003Vw-H0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 12:07:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news.germany.com!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!195.40.4.120.MISMATCH!easynet-quince!easynet.net!easynet-post2!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:n61J/6XdkFlsk/T+CyR2tYOpqt0= Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.93.174.79 Original-X-Trace: DXC=8]G68n>K1ag7R^f`1D_SCjiZdW>mQFP3fbBd4DjF1d]a Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:135806 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:31409 Archived-At: leon writes: > Xavier Maillard writes: > >> On 27 Nov 2005, leon wrote: >> >>> 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. > > Hmm... I picked gnus the first day I started using emacs. I have > never had a chance to explore RMail. As stated in emacswiki: > > "Rmail is the primary Emacs mail-reader. I don't know how many people > currently use it, but I will ignore any suggestion to treat it as > unimportant." -- RMS > > I'm curious if it's capable of dealing large volume mailing lists. It's seems to me vm is more able to deal with large mailboxes than rmail. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. -- Robert Heinlein