From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: csh <csh@bluehome.net>
Cc: ane@iki.fi, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Add Maildir support to RMAIL
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 08:35:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sg01zd50.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1627214524.13283@bluehome.net> (csh@bluehome.net's message of "Sun, 25 Jul 2021 05:02:04 -0700 (PDT)")
csh <csh@bluehome.net> writes:
> Fellow Emacsites,
>
> I really love the simplicity of reading mail with RMAIL, but most
> email providers no longer use the mbox format for mail. Is there any
> way someone could get RMAIL working with Maildir mailboxes?
I have thought about this in the past, but I don't think it would be
possible without rewriting RMAIL to a significant degree. RMAIL can be
seen as a major mode for mbox files, and translating that onto Maildir
would probably turn out messy if backwards compatibility is to be
maintained.
It would probably be better to create a new client, that might use Gnus
code, but tries to provide a Rmail-like interface (and not trying to
abstract over all possible news sources, but just limiting itself to
email). I started writing code for a client like this some while ago,
but gave up because Gnus is good enough for me.
> The only thing I could find on the matter was a blog entry[1], but the solution did not seem complete. It was more of a workaround, and I don't know how well it would work day-to-day.
>
> Thanks,
> Caleb Herbert
>
> CC: Antoine Kalmbach.
>
> [1]: Kalmbach, Antoine. "Back to Rmail." URI: <https://ane.github.io/2020/09/09/rmail.html>.
>
--
Philip Kaludercic
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-26 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-25 12:02 Add Maildir support to RMAIL csh
2021-07-25 12:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-25 13:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-25 13:54 ` csh
2021-07-25 14:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-25 14:18 ` csh
2021-07-25 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-25 14:57 ` csh
2021-07-25 15:55 ` tomas
2021-07-25 15:58 ` tomas
2021-07-25 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-26 1:26 ` Tim Cross
2021-07-26 6:08 ` Jean Louis
2021-07-26 13:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-27 0:23 ` Richard Stallman
2021-07-26 5:23 ` Jean Louis
2021-07-26 9:34 ` Antoine Kalmbach
2021-07-26 10:45 ` Jean Louis
2021-07-26 10:59 ` Antoine Kalmbach
2021-07-26 13:36 ` Jean Louis
2021-07-26 21:56 ` csh
2021-07-27 6:37 ` Antoine Kalmbach
2021-07-28 1:00 ` Richard Stallman
2021-07-28 5:25 ` Yuri Khan
2021-07-25 13:50 ` csh
2021-07-26 8:35 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-07-25 22:18 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-07-26 5:53 ` Paul Jarc
2021-07-26 15:42 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-07-26 5:19 ` Jean Louis
2021-07-26 5:29 ` Jean Louis
2021-07-26 8:35 ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
[not found] <1627220913.7967@bluehome.net>
2021-07-25 14:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2021-07-27 22:02 csh
2021-07-28 7:13 ` Antoine Kalmbach
2021-07-28 21:31 ` csh
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