[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Qs about RMAIL
From: |
Barry Margolin |
Subject: |
Re: Qs about RMAIL |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Apr 2004 12:15:16 -0400 |
User-agent: |
MT-NewsWatcher/3.4 (PPC Mac OS X) |
In article <c6e103$5ru$1@reader2.panix.com>, kj <socyl@987jk.com>
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 1. I tried setting the variable rmail-primary-inbox-list using
>
> M-x set-variable[RET]
> rmail-primary-inbox-list[RET]
> /home/jones/mail/test[RET]
>
> ...but I got the error
>
> set-variable: Value `/home/jones/mail/test' does not match type
> choice of rmail-primary-inbox-list
>
> What's the correct way to enter a list of inboxes?
Lists are enclosed in parentheses. And the elements of this list are
supposed to be strings, which are enclosed in doublequotes. So you
should type:
("/home/jones/mail/test")
>
> 2. Is there a way to tell rmail to fetch mail "just this once" from an
> inbox that is not among the ones that it normally gets mail from?
> (By "just this once" I mean "without having to first set
> rmail-primary-inbox-list and then reset it back to its original
> value")
Give a numeric prefix argument to the "g" command, and it will prompt
for a file to read from.
> 3. What's the simplest way to convert a file from the usual Unix mail
> format to BABYL? (Actually I'm interested in ways to do this from
> within Emacs, as well as from the Unix command line)
Read the file as an inbox into an RMAIL buffer, and then save the buffer.
> 4. Does anybody know of a procmail recipe to save mail to a file in
> BABYL format?
I don't.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***