rmail with attachments

rmail with attachments

[Pedro Sá da Costa]

How should i configure rmail in emacs to read attachments, or save the
attachments in a specific directory?

Thanks,
Pedro

Re: rmail with attachments

[John Paul Wallington]

Pedro Sá da Costa <op132650c@mail.telepac.pt> writes:

> How should i configure rmail in emacs to read attachments, or save the
> attachments in a specific directory?

I recommend Moody's rmime.el library available from
http://www.cinti.net/~rmoody/rmime/

It requires external programs like metamail and mmencode to work.

See http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/RmailMime for more
information.

Re: rmail with attachments

[Pedro Sá da Costa]

I'm having problems in the configuration of mh-e and mmenconde.

Can anybody show me the section for configure mh-e (mail for emacs) and
mmenconde in the dotemacs?

When i try to open mh-e in emacs with mh-rmail, i get that emacs can't
found install-mh file or directory. How can i solve this problem?

And if possible, what are others applications for reading mails?

What are the difference between mh-e and VM? I suppose that is two
programs that do the same.




Thanks,
Pedro


On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 00:10 +0000, John Paul Wallington wrote:
> Pedro Sá da Costa <op132650c@mail.telepac.pt> writes:
> 
> > How should i configure rmail in emacs to read attachments, or save the
> > attachments in a specific directory?
> 
> I recommend Moody's rmime.el library available from
> http://www.cinti.net/~rmoody/rmime/
> 
> It requires external programs like metamail and mmencode to work.
> 
> See http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/RmailMime for more
> information.
> 

Re: rmail with attachments

[Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle]

Hi Pedro,

what system are you using?  Debian Sarge I guess, right?

> I'm having problems in the configuration of mh-e and mmenconde.

Your subject line talks about rmail but rmail is not mh-e.  mh-e is the
emacs frontend of nmh, the "new mail handler" which followed mh, the
unix mail handler.  Now, what are you looking for to use: rmail or mh-e?

> Can anybody show me the section for configure mh-e (mail for emacs)
> and mmenconde in the dotemacs?
> 
> When i try to open mh-e in emacs with mh-rmail, i get that emacs can't
> found install-mh file or directory. How can i solve this problem?

Should you intend to use mh-e I therefore suggest to first study the info
file for nmh:

     "To get started using nmh, put the directory /usr/bin/mh on your
     $PATH.  This is best done in one of the files: .profile, .login,
     .bashrc, or .cshrc in your home directory.  (Check the manual entry
     for the shell you use, in case you don't know how to do this.)  Run
     the install-mh command.  If you've never used nmh before, it will
     create the necessary default files and directories after asking you
     if you wish it to do so."

After you have done this mh-e should work out of the box greatly
... you'll gonna see :-)

> And if possible, what are others applications for reading mails?

Within emacs?

> What are the difference between mh-e and VM? I suppose that is two
> programs that do the same.

I haven't used VM, just took a short look on it but stick with mh-e
then.  rmail, AFAIK, is the emacs standard mail tool.  mh-e is explained
shortly above.  VM (I think it stands for "view mail") is another mail
tool for use with emacs.

ray

Re: rmail with attachments

[Joe Bush]

There's a an elisp called either etach or e-tach. it will allow you to
save or add attachments in rmail.

-Joe.

Re: rmail with attachments

[Peter S Galbraith]

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Pedro Sá da Costa <op132650c@mail.telepac.pt> wrote:

> I'm having problems in the configuration of mh-e and mmenconde.
> 
> Can anybody show me the section for configure mh-e (mail for emacs) and
> mmenconde in the dotemacs?
> 
> When i try to open mh-e in emacs with mh-rmail, i get that emacs can't
> found install-mh file or directory. How can i solve this problem?
> 
> And if possible, what are others applications for reading mails?
> 
> What are the difference between mh-e and VM? I suppose that is two
> programs that do the same.

Catching up on the list... Sorry for the last post.

If you are using MH-E and Emacs-21 (rather from CVS Emacs), then you
really should try the separetely available MH-E from
http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/ 

This version will handle MIME pretty natively through gnus (so it's also
best to have an updated gnus installation as well).

If you are using Debian, install the packages:

  mh-e, gnus, compface, swish++, picon-domains, w3m-el

Peter

Re: rmail with attachments

[Xavier Maillard]

   From: Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>

   Pedro Sá da Costa <op132650c@mail.telepac.pt> wrote:

[snip: original post (12 lines)]

   Catching up on the list... Sorry for the last post.

[snip (3 lines)]

   This version will handle MIME pretty natively through gnus (so it's also
   best to have an updated gnus installation as well).

So to send mail you need to MUA ? Or did I misunderstand something ?

Xavier Maillard

Re: rmail with attachments

[Peter S Galbraith]

Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu.org> wrote:

>    This version [of MH-E] will handle MIME pretty natively through
>    gnus (so it's also best to have an updated gnus installation as
>    well).
> 
> So to send mail you need to MUA ? Or did I misunderstand something ?
> 
> Xavier Maillard

If you meant "two", no the user doesn't need to directly use gnus.  MH-E
transparently uses gnus as a library of sorts.  Why re-invent code?

Try MH-E, you might like it!  Of source it requires that you use an
MH-style email layout.  Create a test user to try it out maybe?

Peter