Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!nsc!amdahl!JUTS!kpc00 From: kpc00@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (kpc) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: mh-e/rmail/vm/...? Message-ID: Date: 17 Aug 90 02:45:29 GMT References: <16940001@hpfcdj.HP.COM> Sender: kpc00@ccc.amdahl.com Organization: my-organization Lines: 29 In-reply-to: pierson@encore.com's message of 15 Aug 90 13:47:51 GMT In article pierson@encore.com (Dan L. Pierson) writes: The Kyle Jones wrote VM. One way to look at VM is as a mail mode that combines all the single file mail folder advantages of rmail with the summary mode support of mh-e. But there's more! :-) This sounds good. Is this posted anywhere so that it can be gotten by non-ftp, crippled-uucp sites? Is there a newsgroup dedicated to it? There are a few additional things I'd like (better handling of compressed mail folders, appending to "open" folders, ...) but I'm glad I switched. rmail seems to have trouble appending to open outgoing mail files also. The summary-mode deficits seem to be widely agreed upon. It might be nice if it were like gnus or integrated with gnus (except for the speed). I am looking forward to a good emacs mail facility! (P.S. Meanwhile, we are trying to encourage the system administrators to understand that it is OK to setgid $EMACS/etc/movemail to group mail so that rmail will work. :-(. It has taken two problem reports, about 5 people, and two or three weeks so far, and the setgid still needs to be done. The emacs culture is a different culture from other corporate cultures. Anyone know a company where emacs is not feared?) -- Neither representing any company nor, necessarily, myself.