From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: "Mike Gran" <spk121@yahoo.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rmail, movemail and maildir
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 14:15:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dn60iilo0f.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170405142103.GA30725@joshua.dnsalias.com> (Mike Gran's message of "Wed, 5 Apr 2017 07:21:03 -0700")
"Mike Gran" wrote:
> (This is GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu))
>
> I'm trying to set up old-school rmail, and I want it to fetch
> mail from a Maildir directory on my home filesystem.
By experiment, it looks to me that Rmail doesn't support this.
I'm not sure why it's mentioned in the documentation.
Same issue a decade ago:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2008-02/msg00355.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-05 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-05 14:21 Rmail, movemail and maildir Mike Gran
2017-04-05 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-05 18:15 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2017-04-05 18:25 ` Glenn Morris
2017-04-06 4:29 ` Robert Thorpe
2017-04-06 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-06 17:20 ` Mike Gran
2017-04-06 17:54 ` Glenn Morris
2017-04-08 17:33 ` Robert Thorpe
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