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.