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Re: rmail: dealing with mailing lists ?


From: Pascal Bourguignon
Subject: Re: rmail: dealing with mailing lists ?
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:04:59 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

leon <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:

> Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:
>
>> On 27 Nov 2005, leon wrote:
>>
>>> You'll be better off using gnus.
>>
>> I just do but I want to test other emacs mails modes. Rmail is
>> one of them and the oldest one AFAIK. I want to know why there so
>> many people still using it nowadays.
>
> Hmm... I picked gnus the first day I started using emacs. I have
> never had a chance to explore RMail. As stated in emacswiki:
>
> "Rmail is the primary Emacs mail-reader. I don't know how many people
> currently use it, but I will ignore any suggestion to treat it as
> unimportant." -- RMS
>
> I'm curious if it's capable of dealing large volume mailing lists.

It's seems to me vm is more able to deal with large mailboxes than rmail.

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__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/

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