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Re: BUG: Tools Meanu -> "Read Mail" is TOO DANGEROUS
From: |
Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: BUG: Tools Meanu -> "Read Mail" is TOO DANGEROUS |
Date: |
04 Mar 2001 15:23:17 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/20.6 |
On 04 Mar 2001, Jari Aalto wrote:
> I believe VM also reads $MAIL and doesn't move it. Gnus also can
> read $MAIL directly and only if configured, it moves mail to
> backends.
I'm not sure, but I think VM moves mail to ~/INBOX.
Gnus does not provide a (practical) possibility to read mail without
moving it into the home dir.
> The problem is the format: babyl, which is not know to any other
> MUA out there, at lest not to those of mainstream.
The program `b2m' is your friend...
> In my opinion the RMAIL should not be the default Mail reader now
> when Gnus in in Emacs. Gnus is more standard with the rest of the
> MUAs and it could be configured so that (G f $MAIL) it reads $MAIL
> when user selects Tools->Mail. This way nothing irreversible would
> happen even if user decided not to use Gnus yet for full time.
Well, but `G f' does not allow the user to delete email. I'm sure
they won't like that.
>| At least Emacs has "M-x unrmail".
>
> Sure, but it has already destroyed $MAIL content. It won't put the
> mail back to $MAIL. Poor user if helpless with his mutt, elm, pine
> even after this.
Yes, maybe a program `unmovemail' would be useful which moves mail
back from a file to /var/spool/mail/jrl.
kai
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- BUG: Tools Meanu -> "Read Mail" is TOO DANGEROUS, Jari Aalto+mail, 2001/03/04
- Re: BUG: Tools Meanu -> "Read Mail" is TOO DANGEROUS, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/03/04
- Re: BUG: Tools Meanu -> "Read Mail" is TOO DANGEROUS, Kai Großjohann, 2001/03/04
- Re: BUG: Tools Meanu -> "Read Mail" is TOO DANGEROUS, Jari Aalto+mail.emacs, 2001/03/04
- Re: BUG: Tools Meanu -> "Read Mail" is TOO DANGEROUS, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/03/04
- Re: BUG: Tools Meanu -> "Read Mail" is TOO DANGEROUS, Jari Aalto+mail.emacs, 2001/03/04
- Re: BUG: Tools Meanu -> "Read Mail" is TOO DANGEROUS, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/03/04
- Re: BUG: Tools Meanu -> "Read Mail" is TOO DANGEROUS, Jari Aalto+mail.emacs, 2001/03/04
- Re: BUG: Tools Meanu -> "Read Mail" is TOO DANGEROUS, Francesco Potorti`, 2001/03/05
Re: BUG: Tools Meanu -> "Read Mail" is TOO DANGEROUS, Harry Putnam, 2001/03/04
Re: BUG: Tools Meanu -> "Read Mail" is TOO DANGEROUS, Francesco Potorti`, 2001/03/05