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From: rlk@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Robert L Krawitz)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU packages
Message-ID: <1273@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 15-Oct-86 15:08:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 15 15:08:52 1986
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In article <3465@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> tower@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU writes:
>From: tower@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
>
>       (2) a good mail reader
>	   The mail systems that came with GNU are clumsy. I'm looking for
>	   something more like Gosling's reader, with lots of files instead
>	   of everything in a single file; I could port Gosling's, but it's
>	   probably copyright. 
>
>GNU's rmail mode has the capability to save messages in a number of
>files and run rmail on any number of these files in different windows.
>I use it this way all the time, saving all the files in a
>sub-directory of my home directory.
>
I suspect that what aglew means is something that saves each message
in a separate file, like mh.  The answer to that is to use mh-rmail,
if you run mh.

>The only thing "missing" (perhaps) is a user-interface inside the
>rmail command set to use such a collection of rmail files.  I say
>"perhaps" because I find using the existing emacs commands gets the
>job done.  The few extra keystrokes have never bothered me enough to
>make such an interface personally worth writing or even remembering.
>
I agree.  Rmail works fine with multiple mail files.
-- 
Robert^Z