37 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 message in an Rmail file is done in a special major mode, Rmail mode, which redefines most letters to run commands for managing mail. The command rmail-mode is used to switch into Rmail mode, and it runs the hook rmail-mode-hook as usual, but don't run this command by hand; it can't do a reasonable job unless the buffer is visiting a proper Rmail file.

• 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 message 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.
• Out of Rmail: Converting an Rmail file to mailbox format.
• 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