What Rmail user groups are there anywhere
around the internet ?...


Question
a.
For Rmail in emacs where the system already runs spamassassin and
puts the spamassassin headers on messages, how do you sort out
spam type messages so that you can still check around in that
sorting in case of any false positives?...

1.
For novice users without expertise in writing dotfiles, for
novice users without expertise in programming, what emacs
commands, Rmail commands can be used to sort out spam type
messages according to spamassassin headers rankings?


2.
How do you create a whitelist of favorite correspondents
so you can read their messages first?...

<dsaklad@zurich.csail.mit.edu> wrote in message
news:1123369749.375610.138760@g49g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> What Rmail user groups are there anywhere
> around the internet ?...

Rmail is dead. It supports neither IMAP nor messages with multiple
attachments, and its customized way of saving all downloaded email in a
local RMAIL file rather than a standard mbox or maildir format is
incompatible with almost everything else out there. It also had an
incredible problem of storing a full copy of your mail spool in RMAIL~,
overflowing your local disk, and then pulling in the contents of the old
RMAIL~ into the new RMAIL and repeating the problem in a way that made the
buffer too large for Emacs to handle, and which you had to trim down to size
with vi or something lighter weight. [ I went through this last year with
some researchers to get them off of POP and over to IMAP server based
mail.... ]

I strongly urge Rmail users to look at gnus or one of the mail handling
packages written this century, which is now available under emacs and does
plenty of good threading and handling of formats that are more common
today.


> Question
> a.
> For Rmail in emacs where the system already runs spamassassin and
> puts the spamassassin headers on messages, how do you sort out
> spam type messages so that you can still check around in that
> sorting in case of any false positives?...

You use procmail up front on the mail server, if feasible.

Thank you Nico Kadel-Garcia !

How do you set up a gnus email dotfile
if you already use gnus for usenet but
have very very little expertise about
dotfiles, lisp, programming and have
dyslexic ADHD short attention symptoms ?...

The information for that around the web
is for people with greater expertise!

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> <dsaklad@zurich.csail.mit.edu> wrote in message
> news:1123369749.375610.138760@g49g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> > What Rmail user groups are there anywhere
> > around the internet ?...
>
> Rmail is dead. It supports neither IMAP nor messages with multiple
> attachments, and its customized way of saving all downloaded email in a
> local RMAIL file rather than a standard mbox or maildir format is
> incompatible with almost everything else out there. It also had an
> incredible problem of storing a full copy of your mail spool in RMAIL~,
> overflowing your local disk, and then pulling in the contents of the old
> RMAIL~ into the new RMAIL and repeating the problem in a way that made the
> buffer too large for Emacs to handle, and which you had to trim down to size
> with vi or something lighter weight. [ I went through this last year with
> some researchers to get them off of POP and over to IMAP server based
> mail.... ]
>
> I strongly urge Rmail users to look at gnus or one of the mail handling
> packages written this century, which is now available under emacs and does
> plenty of good threading and handling of formats that are more common
> today.
>
>
> > Question
> > a.
> > For Rmail in emacs where the system already runs spamassassin and
> > puts the spamassassin headers on messages, how do you sort out
> > spam type messages so that you can still check around in that
> > sorting in case of any false positives?...
>
> You use procmail up front on the mail server, if feasible.

<dsaklad@zurich.csail.mit.edu> wrote in message
news:1123440846.770861.259920@g44g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> Thank you Nico Kadel-Garcia !
>
> How do you set up a gnus email dotfile
> if you already use gnus for usenet but
> have very very little expertise about
> dotfiles, lisp, programming and have
> dyslexic ADHD short attention symptoms ?...
>
> The information for that around the web
> is for people with greater expertise!

Ahh. I'm afraid I'd have to dig into the dotfiles of a former employer to
give you the exact answer. Since I no longer work there, it might be, ummmm.
Inappropriate to dig directly for those. Are you sure you can't work from
the web references?

If reading and mastering such net-based documentation is beyond your current
expertise, I've got to ask, why are you using Emacs for mail rather than a
more comfortable email environment, such as Thunderbird or Evolution?