From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: reading mail with emacs Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 21:19:21 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <8761htk1c6.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87k36d2nn9.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <87ioluhbmw.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408130433 22423 80.91.229.3 (15 Aug 2014 19:20:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:20:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 15 21:20:24 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XIN2z-0005aM-SL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 21:20:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33059 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XIN2z-0004c1-2B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:20:21 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ik3AsdnXgDuuhTznpR4T6CP10nk= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206952 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99229 Archived-At: Jorge Araya Navarro writes: > Impressive indeed, but, it wouldn't be rather easy if > the OP just install mu4e and use it to read and reply > his emails from Emacs? I don't know the specifics (I don't know why people would want to be that close to their mail backends, but I see it from time to time) but even so, I would think there is an easier way, yes. But it is never wrong to first just solve the problem, then you can solve it the right way. Often writing code to solve it your way is very helpful, it makes you realize just what tools you need, and at that point it is only a matter of finding and employing them. By the way, I got a mail from the OP which I suspect was aimed for this list: It just grabs (from /var/spool/exim/input if supplied on the command line) and dumps a (halfway) converted file (RMAIL format). Something about my mail is horribly broken. I don't know what yet, but it has to do with exim (that is my current understanding at least), emacs and friends seem not to be implicated. -- underground experts united