Emacs/emacs/Rmail

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:		Basic concepts of Rmail, and simple use.
• Scroll:		Scrolling through a message.
• Motion:		Moving to another message.
• Deletion:		Deleting and expunging messages.
• Inbox:		How mail gets into the Rmail file.
• Files:		Using multiple Rmail files.
• Output:		Copying messages out to files.
• Labels:		Classifying messages by labeling them.
• Attrs:		Certain standard labels, called attributes.
• Reply:		Sending replies to messages you are viewing.
• Summary:		Summaries show brief info on many messages.
• Sort:		Sorting messages in Rmail.
• Display:		How Rmail displays a message; customization.
• Coding:		How Rmail handles decoding character sets.
• Editing:		Editing message text and headers in Rmail.
• Digest:		Extracting the messages from a digest message.
• Rot13:		Reading messages encoded in the rot13 code.
• Movemail:		More details of fetching new mail.
• Remote Mailboxes:		Retrieving mail from remote mailboxes.
• Other Mailbox Formats:		Retrieving mail from local mailboxes in various formats.