Mail in Emacs

Mail in Emacs

[Johan van der Walt]

I am trying to get into using emacs to send and read e-mail but find
it difficult to handle attachments. Is there somewhere a simple and
clear description of how to handle attachments? For both emacs and
xemacs.


Perhaps a very simple question for many of you. 


Thanks

Johan

Re: Mail in Emacs

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "Johan" == Johan van der Walt <johan@fskdjvdw.puk.ac.za> writes:

  Johan> I am trying to get into using emacs to send and read e-mail
  Johan> but find it difficult to handle attachments. Is there
  Johan> somewhere a simple and clear description of how to handle
  Johan> attachments? For both emacs and xemacs.


  Johan> Perhaps a very simple question for many of you.

As you might expect there are several ways of doing this, and it
depends which email client you are using. 

VM, and Gnus both handle attachments out of the box, as far as I know,
so it should be fairly obvious. RMAIL does not. I use the "etach"
package to do this, which is fairly minimal but does the job. google
should provide a URL....

Cheers

Phil

Re: Mail in Emacs

[Bastien Guerry]

Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:

> VM, and Gnus both handle attachments out of the box, as far as I know,
> so it should be fairly obvious. 

C-c C-a for most of these packages (including Mew)

regards,

-- 
Bastien

Re: Mail in Emacs

[Peter S Galbraith]

Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> wrote:

> >>>>> "Johan" == Johan van der Walt <johan@fskdjvdw.puk.ac.za> writes:
> 
>   Johan> I am trying to get into using emacs to send and read e-mail
>   Johan> but find it difficult to handle attachments. Is there
>   Johan> somewhere a simple and clear description of how to handle
>   Johan> attachments? For both emacs and xemacs.
> 
> As you might expect there are several ways of doing this, and it
> depends which email client you are using. 
> 
> VM, and Gnus both handle attachments out of the box, as far as I know,
> so it should be fairly obvious.

As does MH-E.  See http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/

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