>>> "GH" == Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

>> 
>> If memory serves me, then Rmail was the *first* email reader for GNU
>> emacs (1987?),
>> 

> Rmail, like Info and Dired, predates GNU Emacs, it was already part of
> ITS Emacs in 1980.  They were among the first things RMS reimplemented
> for GNU Emacs, in 1985.

Aha, I did not know that, thanks!