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From: pf@csc.ti.com (Paul Fuqua)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: RMAIL file ---> UNIX mail file
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Date: 12 Feb 89 01:06:11 GMT
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    Date: Friday, February 10, 1989  8:30am (CST)
    From: kjones at talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
    Subject: Re: RMAIL file ---> UNIX mail file
    Newsgroups: comp.emacs
    
    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?

1.  Compatibility with Babyl, the ITS/Twenex Emacs mail-reader, which
brings with it compatibility with lispm mail-readers.  (Wasn't Babyl's
ancestor named Rmail?)

2.  Where do you put the labels (keywords, whatever) and attributes
(like Unseen, Answered, etc)?

3.  Where do you cache the reformatted header?

4.  Where do you put file-specific attributes like the inbox list and
others that rmail doesn't use yet?


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