Re: RMS Setup

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "EBvUlftGEte" == Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
>>> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> Caleb Herbert wrote:
>> Can someone help me do email the way RMS does it?

> He uses RMAIL/Rmail.

>   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 [1]

> But this quote is not 100% correct to be honest.

I think it is a bit misleading. If memory serves me, then Rmail was the
*first* email reader for GNU emacs (1987?), the second one was/is VM (1989), 
gnus popped
up around 1993 but first as a newsreader and was then rewritten to serve
as a new/mail reader.

> Gnus is as much built-in as Rmail. There is no primary Emacs
> mail-reader. And, more importantly, Gnus is on a whole
> other level.

> So use Gnus :)

> [1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Rmail

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