Re: Using R-mail in Emacs

[Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net>]

Sending mail should be easy. M-x mail, fill out the fields, write your
mail, then C-c C-s to send. You'll be prompted for your server and
credentials, and then offered the opportunity to save those to
.authinfo (which you should do). No more to it than that, and although
that's just the rudiments, you can send mail.

Reading mail is different. If you're staying with rmail, you'll need
an external program to fetch your mail and put it into your inboxes.
That's out of scope for this message (you can research it) but for
IMAP you can use dovecot or many others. Once your mail is properly
stored on your computer you can then read it easily enough with M-x
rmail. See "Reading Mail with Rmail" in the Emacs manual.

In the end, though, you may find rmail too simple and lacking options.
You may not want to go all the way and use gnus, but there are other
options that give you more than rmail without the learning curve of
gnus (although ultimately gnus is worth the effort, you just have to
stay with it).

Aloha from Hawai`i nei,

Bob Newell
Honolulu