From: "visaris tds.net" <visaris@tds.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: "visaris tds.net" <visaris@tds.net>
Subject: reading mail with emacs
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:29:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+Jy_pB+Y-NN7F+1mViJ+E-iqvrkScdE69X3Vt23ehFoXbVnMw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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.
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 have spent much time chasing cryptic pointers reading unintelligable
documents making vague references to "movemail" but it is beyond me.
I have contemplated perusing the RMAIL file and comparing it with
contents of /var/spool/exim/input so as to increase the chance that I can
make some lucky guesses and write a c program to bridge the gap from
/var/spool/exim/input to RMAIL. Surely emacs has not deteriated to the
point that this would be necessary. I find it difficult to believe there
is not
some simple way to proceed.
Sorry to be so ingorant of what must be the obvious simple solution.
next reply other threads:[~2014-08-12 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-12 14:29 visaris tds.net [this message]
2014-08-12 17:14 ` reading mail with emacs Sharon Kimble
2014-08-13 1:18 ` Robert Thorpe
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2014-08-14 1:14 ` visaris tds.net
2014-08-14 1:26 ` visaris tds.net
[not found] ` <mailman.7089.1407979619.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-14 23:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-08-15 4:09 ` Jorge Araya Navarro
[not found] ` <mailman.7112.1408075888.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-15 19:19 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] <mailman.7024.1407858485.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-12 16:57 ` Emanuel Berg
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