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Re: Help setting up POP3 email (rmail)


From: Robert Thorpe
Subject: Re: Help setting up POP3 email (rmail)
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 17:52:07 +0000

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> The whole UNIX, by now GNU/Linux toolchain, is also
> based on operations on text, which are stored in
> files. If everything that was associated by purpose or
> form would be in single files, you could virtually
> throw away three quarters of the tools as they would
> be totally hampered anyway.

I'll let maildir advocates comment on whether maildir is "Unixy" or not.

Regarding Gnus vs Rmail, what's the difference?  Rmail uses multiple
mbox files and Gnus use multiple mbox files by default.  They're both
the same if you're tinkering with mail using command line tools.

BR,
Robert Thorpe



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