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Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] IMAIL
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Taylor R Campbell |
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Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] IMAIL |
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Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:45:59 +0000 |
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IMAIL/1.21; Edwin/3.116; MIT-Scheme/9.1.99 |
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:20:29 +0100
From: Peter BARABAS <address@hidden>
Now you mentioned Edwin, I checked it out and saw that it also has an NNTP
client + RMAIL. What is the relation between these parts? Is IMAIL a newer
version of RMAIL or do they serve different purposes? Sorry for my
ignorance, I'm new to MIT-SCHEME.
RMAIL is a transcription of GNU Emacs RMAIL, as it was in the early-
to mid-nineties, from elisp into Scheme, and supports only local mail
storage. IMAIL is totally rewritten and supports IMAP.
The NNTP client, SNR, is not related to either as far as I know. In
principle, one could adapt the NNTP back end to be an IMAIL back end
and use the same IMAIL front end for mail and news. But nobody's done
that.