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Re: comments

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From: Jamie Zawinski
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1991 20:21
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In message <1991Jul3.124421.25562@cs.utk.edu> Dave Sill wrote:
>
>> (1) It would be nice to have a RMAIL-to-VM translator. I wrote
>> one myself as I imagine most people have to or they are put off by
>> the seeming difficulty.
> 
> Perhaps one should be included with VM, since it seems to be one of
> the most frequently reinvented wheels.

Even better, VM should be able to read and write that format.  I wrote code
to do this for vm 5.15, but it stopped working around 5.20, and I haven't
gotten around to fixing it.  I think this would be an amazingly useful
thing, because a lot of people don't want to switch to VM because they have
many babyl folders that they don't want to take the time to convert en masse.
Also, many people around here share folders, so converting them all isn't
an option unless everyone stops using rmail at the same time.

I also think that VM should support the mh folder format, because I think
that's a much better way of doing things.

So Kyle, when are we getting a new release?  You're falling into the emacs19
trap: the longer you wait, the more features we're going to expect :-)

	-- Jamie
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