From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
To: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help setting up POP3 email (rmail)
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 17:52:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87si0cvi2g.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9gth9cv.fsf@debian.uxu> (message from Emanuel Berg on Sun, 28 Feb 2016 03:11:44 +0100)
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
> The whole UNIX, by now GNU/Linux toolchain, is also
> based on operations on text, which are stored in
> files. If everything that was associated by purpose or
> form would be in single files, you could virtually
> throw away three quarters of the tools as they would
> be totally hampered anyway.
I'll let maildir advocates comment on whether maildir is "Unixy" or not.
Regarding Gnus vs Rmail, what's the difference? Rmail uses multiple
mbox files and Gnus use multiple mbox files by default. They're both
the same if you're tinkering with mail using command line tools.
BR,
Robert Thorpe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-28 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-23 19:21 Help setting up POP3 email (rmail) cptvlaze
2016-02-23 22:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-24 0:41 ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-24 2:50 ` Nick Dokos
2016-02-24 3:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-24 16:41 ` Nick Dokos
2016-02-24 14:38 ` cptvlaze
2016-02-24 14:46 ` tomas
2016-02-24 15:34 ` cptvlaze
2016-02-24 20:16 ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-24 20:28 ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-24 23:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-24 23:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-26 18:46 ` cptvlaze
2016-02-26 19:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-26 23:56 ` cptvlaze
2016-02-27 0:06 ` John Mastro
2016-02-27 4:05 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-27 8:28 ` tomas
2016-02-27 9:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-28 2:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-28 17:52 ` Robert Thorpe [this message]
2016-02-29 0:20 ` Gnus (was: Re: Help setting up POP3 email (rmail)) Emanuel Berg
2016-02-29 2:31 ` Robert Thorpe
2016-03-02 2:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-29 0:55 ` Help setting up POP3 email (rmail) Emanuel Berg
2016-02-29 8:47 ` tomas
2016-02-27 0:44 ` Emanuel Berg
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2016-02-27 10:24 Joe Westlaw
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