Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!xanth!mcnc!rti!talos!kjones From: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: RMAIL file ---> UNIX mail file Message-ID: <425@talos.UUCP> Date: 10 Feb 89 14:30:41 GMT References: <156@ai.cs.utexas.edu> <421@talos.UUCP> Reply-To: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones) Organization: Philip Morris Research Center, Richmond, VA Lines: 18 Steve Popovich writes: >I don't think rmail needs to be a disabled command, but I do think that >having "mbox" as one of its default inputs is a little excessive. If >somebody WANTS to convert all of their old mail, they certainly can -- but >why check for it every time? Most of all, why give The Big Gotcha to >first-time users? Mail, MM, MH...none of them convert all of your old >messages to their format by default. Why should RMAIL? Indeed, why should RMAIL convert your mail to a different format at all? What's so wrong the existing UNIX mail format that RMAIL couldn't have layered its features on top of it? I really want to read my mail under Emacs, but I steadfastly refuse to convert my mailbox files to an alien format just to please RMAIL. One of these days the urge to rewrite RMAIL to use the UNIX mail format will be too great... before that happens, would the RMAIL implementors (or anyone who knows) care to comment on why the existing mail format was not used?