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Re: Reading presorted mail with emacs ...

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From: Justin Sheehy
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 00:00
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Stefan Waldherr <swa@cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> I use procmail to presort my mail into various folders and exmh to
> read it. So far so good. From home, however, I only have a text
> interface and I would like to read my mail with Emacs.
> 
> mh-e doesn't help since the mail is already presorted into lots of
> folders and there is no way to display new mail in all folders,
> right? Is gnus, which I use for news reading, of any help or are do
> I have other options?

Gnus can certainly help.  What you are probably looking for is the
'nnmh' backend, which can interoperate with the various mh interfaces
and commands.

The following manual sections would be particularly helpful[1]:

http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_6.html#SEC134
http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_6.html#SEC148

[1]  actually, the whole manual would be helpful.
     those bits are particularly relevant.

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Justin Sheehy

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From: Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org>
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