From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glyn Millington Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What are advantages and disadvantages of RMAIL and mh-rmail ? Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:38:04 +0100 Organization: Utterly lacking Message-ID: <87ob7i208j.fsf@nowhere.org> References: <5ili3zuuj0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <878uyoua8b.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <8761tr9ofa.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87ob7iq5sf.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> Reply-To: glyn.millington@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380006073 21597 80.91.229.3 (24 Sep 2013 07:01:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:01:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 24 09:01:17 2013 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 1VOMcX-0001wa-1j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:01:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43840 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOMcW-0006v7-N6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 03:01:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46540) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOMcI-0006uz-FC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 03:01:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOMcD-0006TB-3R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 03:01:02 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39633) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VOMcC-0006Sy-So for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 03:00:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VOMcA-0001k6-Sw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:00:54 +0200 Original-Received: from cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net ([91.135.3.25]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:00:54 +0200 Original-Received: from glyn.millington by cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:00:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cust25-dsl91-135-3.idnet.net X-Liturgical-Date: Weekday: Tuesday of the Twenty-fifth Week of Ordinary Time, A.D. 2013 X-Shakespeare: "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." -- King Henry VI, Part 2, IV.2 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lg5hHDONYx7p003njPghvnYPH5c= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:93530 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Emanuel Berg writes: > >>> Something like this is all that's really needed for this ... >> That did it ... > > Oh no... did anyone write a tool to populate a Gnus group from an > RMAIL file? http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Rmail#toc11 Converting Babyl files to mbox format If you tried Rmail with an Emacs version prior to 23 and you decide that Rmail is not for you, you can later read mail from the Babyl file if you are using Gnus. For all other mail readers, you’ll have to move the mails back into mbox format. Use ‘M-x unrmail’ to convert the mail file. You can also use the command-line tool b2m to do it. Starting with version 23, Emacs converts Babyl files back into mbox when it first reads them. hth Glyn