From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to use rmail.el on windows
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 15:45:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw.86efy6se3i.fsf@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: tencent_1D6828666B57EDF72EE88F4E@qq.com
张军峰 wrote:
> I use emacs 25.1 on windows 7, I want to use
> rmail to read mail in pop.qq.com。I set
> rmail-inbox-list:
> pop://hengaini2055:password@pop.qq.com:995。M-x
> rmail，I get the error info as follows:
> movemail: Error connecting to POP server: Could
> not determine POP server's address
>
> Thank you! Any reply is welcome.
To set up Rmail with POP is easy - probably you
will find a code snippet here [1] and just fill
in the details. (The details are the servers
stated when you got a paper from your ISP.)
However on that page, there is also this quote
by RMS:
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.
This quote isn't good. It is said in a context
of "who uses Emacs to do mail?" (pseudo-quote).
In this context, I agree to the spirit of the
quote, i.e. the capabilities to do so are
important and only complete morons would argue.
However the exact phrasing - "primary
mail-reader" - why is it "primary"? It isn't.
Gnus is also installed by default and it is
a hundred times more powerful than Rmail (more
powerful in terms of technology). So as any
advice is welcome, my is: don't use Rmail,
use Gnus.
[1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Rmail
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2017-03-09 13:26 How to use rmail.el on windows =?gb18030?B?1cW+/Lfl?=
2017-03-09 14:45 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2017-03-09 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-11 1:00 ` Robert Thorpe
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