33 Reading Mail with Rmail
Rmail is an Emacs subsystem for reading and disposing of mail that you receive. Rmail stores mail messages in files called Rmail files. Reading the messages in an Rmail file is done in a special major mode, Rmail mode, which redefines most letters to run commands for managing mail.
Emacs also comes with a much more sophisticated and flexible subsystem for reading mail, called Gnus. Gnus is a very large package, and is therefore described in its own manual, see The Gnus Newsreader.
- Basic Concepts of Rmail
- Scrolling Within a Message
- Moving Among Messages
- Deleting Messages
- Rmail Files and Inboxes
- Multiple Rmail Files
- Copying Messages Out to Files
- Labels
- Rmail Attributes
- Sending Replies
- Summaries
- Sorting the Rmail File
- Display of Messages
- Rmail and Coding Systems
- Editing Within a Message
- Digest Messages
- Reading Rot13 Messages
movemailprogram- Retrieving Mail from Remote Mailboxes
- Retrieving Mail from Local Mailboxes in Various Formats