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From: scott@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Mail modes?
Message-ID: <7326@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 21 Mar 90 15:57:14 GMT
References: <7325@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <7325@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0818a@prism.gatech.EDU (Paul E. Robichaux) writes:
>As a recent convert to EMACS from (gasp) vi, I find myself more and more 
>amazed at the number and kinds of tricks it can do. I've been told that
>mailer subsystems ("mail-mode", maybe?) exist to run under emacs, but we
>don't seem to have any installed here.
>
>I would appreciate pointers to mail reading/sending/browsing accessories.
>Anon FTP is ok, as are listservers. Thanks!
>
>-Paul

M-x rmail

This should invoke the emacs mail reader described in the Emacs
reference manuals. There may be others, but I am not sure. Also,

M-x rn

Invokes an emacs based news reader. 

Both of these packages are provided with the standard emacs distribution. 

- Scott
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