From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using R-mail in Emacs Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:38:08 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86d0thfrgf.fsf@zoho.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536845925 14532 195.159.176.226 (13 Sep 2018 13:38:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:38:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 13 15:38:41 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g0RpP-0003fj-Qp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:38:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42572 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0RrW-0008Ba-4J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 09:40:50 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: onLrbz09yV+MU3RaxdbMkg.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:tnnf1BqPW2OaKK9cTQdVYHHj4jI= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:223759 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117884 Archived-At: Jude DaShiell wrote: > why I don't like mbox file format. I had an > occassion to do a malware check on a machine > and the mail spool had a message in it with > malware. I ended up having to delete that > entire mail spool file before all messages > were read. +1 Just one example of how you can't use your everyday GNU/Unix tools on your mail files the way you are used to, if everything is in a single file. > An alternative is nmail but I don't know if > rmail can work with nmail. I don't think you can use different backends with Rmail. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573