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From: tower@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)

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       (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.

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.

The above is my personal opinion and is NOT an official opinion of
Project GNU or the Free Software Foundation.

Len Tower
Project GNU of the Free Software Foundation

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