From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Add Maildir support to RMAIL Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 16:03:29 +0300 Message-ID: <83wnpdut0e.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83h7giwjtb.fsf@gnu.org> <1627225069.25819@bluehome.net> <87wnpdhm0s.fsf@gmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13325"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tim Cross Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 26 15:05:06 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m80I5-0003Mk-TP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2021 15:05:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36598 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m80I4-0006rr-P9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2021 09:05:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48192) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m80Gg-0004ya-N7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2021 09:03:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40554) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m80Gg-0000mP-C7; Mon, 26 Jul 2021 09:03:38 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1200 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m80Gf-0005Dp-WE; Mon, 26 Jul 2021 09:03:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87wnpdhm0s.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Tim Cross on Mon, 26 Jul 2021 11:26:21 +1000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:271645 Archived-At: > From: Tim Cross > Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 11:26:21 +1000 > > It has been decades since I used Rmail, but from memory, it used its > own internal format for storing messages - it use to be that rmail > would read the messages from the traditional mbox format on local > system and move them into rmail's preferred format. FTR, that stopped being so long ago. Rmail nowadays uses the mbox format to store its messages, so no conversion to any private format (called BABYL, btw) is needed these days.