From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chetan Pandya Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Recognize mbox files? Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:34:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <806345.77223.qm@web83203.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234312498 13775 80.91.229.12 (11 Feb 2009 00:34:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:34:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 11 01:36:11 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LX35D-00011N-VB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:36:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47607 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LX33t-0002td-Mb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:34:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LX33p-0002tL-GZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:34:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LX33n-0002t8-SX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:34:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58566 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LX33n-0002t4-MI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:34:39 -0500 Original-Received: from web83203.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([216.252.101.47]:35383) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LX33m-0005Nj-NO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:34:38 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 77265 invoked by uid 60001); 11 Feb 2009 00:34:36 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=rS1DxUcTZ54T6gBOc4JI89VxdS1lw/9VwxjS3tTV4hiIbpVt2Ouf9rpfLIO+Jgdldjxm9foNo1p/uO13BHMoJH7xVCOsZY2k9rkJyZawsyQqhX0MfKbdWbqocw8VJ8n9pIoxT4kSMho6tjsqk9QLpnm6jRet5wOdCXzFRea7zao=; X-YMail-OSG: bjNluG8VM1lPqeHEBZrF78ABSpeedtIyDvhiEHYRZJhEOCwVf4GajqhnbM0hdFIAORiu1STHfOSoWWWD6r6F1rRXbvEvCB707uYdgYLRlHjpXxG__Mj8QV.MpttJDITRvqHXhacCHO1L6kau4lAJFNMnrJZCXab3gxKGrrQYZh1CfqIKvuGZlA9q24zCXtZE56OnCsGFy2Zp Original-Received: from [76.200.183.251] by web83203.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:34:36 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/1155.45 YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:108973 Archived-At: ----------------- From: Richard M Stallman What about assuming that rmail files always start witj "RMAIL" or "XMAIL" (and ignore case-sensitivity)? Then RMAIL.foo would be a RMAIL file, and xmail.123 would also be a rmail file. I normally use *.xmail for these files. I think others use *.mbox. But the general idea would work. ------------------- If the intent is to work with other mail readers, assuming any such extension will be difficult. As long as the files are used from within rmail, no such convention is needed, as rmail can expect them to be formatted as expected. Personally I am against C-x C-f trying to interpret these files as rmail files automatically, but it may still be useful to specify binary coding for these files when editing these files. The users, of course, have the option of setting auto-mode-alist and auto-coding-alist as they like. -Chetan