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- From: ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett)
- Subject: anything better than RMAIL around?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.173148.13480@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:31:48 GMT
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- Fellow emacsers,
- Although RMAIL is far superior to UNIX mail, I'm
- frantically searching the manual for commands to do what I sure many
- have wanted done, yet those commands are not to be found. For example:
-
- 1 - Is there a way to output a mail message as a normal ascii file,
- rather than an rmail or unix mail file?
-
- 2 - My next question needs an example: I have my mail messages
- labeled, and I have a bunch with the labels: ps, emacs, and gnus,
- which were all the replies to three previous questions to this group.
- My goal is to output them all to an rmail file in another directory
- (where I can print them, formulate my conclusions, and post
- summaries), and I type C-M-l to call up all messages with any of these
- labels, and they appear. If I'm in the RMAIL-summary window (which
- contains the list of messages labeld with these three labels), I can
- use n and p to move through them, while the message itself appears in
- the RMAIL window. However, I have to switch windows (from the summary
- to the RMAIL window) to use the command o (to write the message to the
- output file), and if I use the n command there (in the RMAIL window)
- it moves not to the next message in the summary window (i.e. the next
- message with an appropriate label), but to the next message in my
- rmail file, which may or may not be one of the ones with the labels I
- want. I have to switch back to the summary window, move to the next
- message, then move back to the RMAIL window to output THAT message.
- And so on, for each of the messages I'm interested in. (I know about
- C-M-n, but because I have three labels that I'm looking for, that is
- only slightly less clumsy). Is there a better way to do this kind of
- thing? Specifically I'd like a way to output messages directly from
- the summary window, and evan a command which would output all messages
- in the current RMAIL-summary window to the same file.
-
- 3 - Finally, I would like a closer connection between my mail program
- and my netnews program (gnus), so that I could, perhaps, post a
- message to the net from RMAIL, including the current mail message
- (for example, if someone replies to this post via mail, with a message
- that I, for some reason, want to repost with more questions). Of
- course this might lead to more meaningless posts on the net in
- general, but I think I could conrtol myself :-).
-
- Does anyone know how to do the above, made mods on rmail to do any of
- the above, or know of another GNU emacs package that will answer all
- my prayers about using emacs to read my mail? Please email me. I'll
- read your messages as best I can with rmail and summarize awkwardly
- via gnus.
-
- Ed
-
- PS - BTW, if the people who wrote rmail and gnus read this, no
- offense, your packages are about 1 million times better than their
- --
- Edward Hartnett ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu
-
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