Re: Using R-mail in Emacs

[Emanuel Berg]

Jude DaShiell wrote:

> why I don't like mbox file format. I had an
> occassion to do a malware check on a machine
> and the mail spool had a message in it with
> malware. I ended up having to delete that
> entire mail spool file before all messages
> were read.

+1

Just one example of how you can't use your
everyday GNU/Unix tools on your mail files the
way you are used to, if everything is in
a single file.

> An alternative is nmail but I don't know if
> rmail can work with nmail.

I don't think you can use different backends
with Rmail.

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