From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: cstacy@news.dtpq.com (Christopher C. Stacy) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: rmail: dealing with mailing lists ? Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:40:46 GMT Message-ID: References: <86u0dy9m73.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 1133142338 8918 80.91.229.2 (28 Nov 2005 01:45:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:45:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 28 02:45:31 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EgY56-0005M3-JQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:45:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EgY55-0001KZ-W6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:45:24 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!atl-c05.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny06.POSTED!8b1f9295!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mEITpMAIzGpz5IxjKoobmT2sh84= Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.163.196.89 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net Original-X-Trace: trndny06 1133142046 68.163.196.89 (Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:40:46 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:40:46 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:135840 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:31443 Archived-At: 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. I wonder if there are "many people" using it. I only use it because I have many archival mailboxes in BABYL file format going back 25 years. At the place where Emacs was invented, we had already replaced RMAIL with BABYL, and then with something much more powerful, all 25 years ago. But the superior technology is no longer available -- long story -- and I'm not thrilled with any of the other Emacs-based mail handling systems like Gnus (which I do use for newsgroups). So when the day came, I just exported my mail files into BABYL format and sadly dropped back to RMAIL. RMAIL lacks many features, but it's been adequate.