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 which use a special format. 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.

• 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