IMAP with Rmail

IMAP with Rmail

[Byung-Hee HWANG]

Few days ago, i tried to enable IMAP with Rmail, Emacs's default
mailer. But Rmail seems not to offer IMAP yet. Is there anyone to use
IMAP with Rmail. Futhermore, am i connect on Gmail's IMAP with Rmail? If
it is possible, once i am willing to try to use Rmail because i believe
real emacs hacker prefer Rmail to the others.
 
-- 
Byung-Hee HWANG, KNU 
∑ WWW: http://izb.knu.ac.kr/~bh/

Re: IMAP with Rmail

[Jim Burton]

Byung-Hee HWANG <bh@izb.knu.ac.kr> writes:

> Few days ago, i tried to enable IMAP with Rmail, Emacs's default
> mailer. But Rmail seems not to offer IMAP yet. Is there anyone to use
> IMAP with Rmail. Futhermore, am i connect on Gmail's IMAP with Rmail? If
> it is possible, once i am willing to try to use Rmail because i believe
> real emacs hacker prefer Rmail to the others.

I haven't used Rmail myself (no surprise, since I am not a "real emacs
hacker") but Gnus and Wanderlust both do IMAP, handle all mailbox
formats, and are easy to set up with gmail. Personally, I found Gnus to
be slow with IMAP mailboxes and have stuck with wl.

AFAIK it's likely to be much harder to set this up with Rmail. If you
can live with the diminished kudos, give one of them a try.
 
-- 
Jim Burton
jb162@brighton.ac.uk

Re: IMAP with Rmail

[Glenn Morris]

Byung-Hee HWANG wrote:

> Few days ago, i tried to enable IMAP with Rmail, Emacs's default
> mailer. But Rmail seems not to offer IMAP yet.

C-h i
m emacs RET
i imap RET

 "Another method for accessing remote mailboxes is IMAP..."

Re: IMAP with Rmail

[rustom]

On Mar 24, 3:55 pm, Jim Burton <j.bur...@brighton.ac.uk> wrote:
> Byung-Hee HWANG <b...@izb.knu.ac.kr> writes:
> > Few days ago, i tried to enable IMAP with Rmail, Emacs's default
> > mailer. But Rmail seems not to offer IMAP yet. Is there anyone to use
> > IMAP with Rmail. Futhermore, am i connect on Gmail's IMAP with Rmail? If
> > it is possible, once i am willing to try to use Rmail because i believe
> > real emacs hacker prefer Rmail to the others.
>
> I haven't used Rmail myself (no surprise, since I am not a "real emacs
> hacker") but Gnus and Wanderlust both do IMAP, handle all mailbox
> formats, and are easy to set up with gmail. Personally, I found Gnus to
> be slow with IMAP mailboxes and have stuck with wl.
>
> AFAIK it's likely to be much harder to set this up with Rmail. If you
> can live with the diminished kudos, give one of them a try.
>
> --
> Jim Burton
> jb...@brighton.ac.uk

Rmail/WL/gnus?? Which is the easiest to script?
Requirement is to generate a small cooked automated mail to a fixed
set of recipients (through an IMAP server)
And one politically incorrect question: Is rmail a reasonable option
today?  Does anyone use it??

Re: IMAP with Rmail

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Mar 24 2009, Glenn Morris wrote:

> C-h i
> m emacs RET
> i imap RET
>
>  "Another method for accessing remote mailboxes is IMAP..."

But that is "use IMAP like POP", isn't it?  That doesn't count as IMAP
support in my book.

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: IMAP with Rmail

[Glenn Morris]

Reiner Steib wrote:

> But that is "use IMAP like POP", isn't it?  That doesn't count as IMAP
> support in my book.

I wouldn't know imap from a hole in the ground. I'm just saying that:
the question how much, or how little, support does Rmail have for imap
is answered in the Emacs manual.

Re: IMAP with Rmail

[Xavier Maillard]

   And one politically incorrect question: Is rmail a reasonable option
   today?  Does anyone use it??

I do and I find it really practical even today if you can stay
away from the MIME jungle (which I am also trying to do). Though
there are still glitches  with encodings from time to time (hard
to track them down).

	Xavier
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