Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 14:49:03 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Willem Bekker cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: EMAIL WITH EMACS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: dj-admin AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Willem Bekker wrote: > I have a standard dial up account with an internet service provider. I > would like to use emacs to send and receive email and maybe news as well. > Can anybody tell me what I could download and what would be necessary to > write (either as a stand alone c program or as a lisp package). You need Emacs. > It seems > (if I am not mistaken) that you cannot use the packages distributed with > emacs in dos directly. You *can* use the DJGPP version of Emacs to read your mail, provided that you have a way to access your mailbox as a file. For example, Unix mail servers usually maintain the mailbox on a disk in a special format; Emacs knows how to read that format, so if you can access that file, you are done. The relevant command is `M-x rmail'; to tell Emacs to read mail from a file of your choice, type `C-u g', and then the file name at the prompt. This method has a disadvantage: you cannot easily reply to your mail. About the only way is to save the replies on disk, then import them from some mailer and send. This is a bit awkward. Alternatively, you can download and install NTEmacs, a native Win32 compile of Emacs. That version has built-in support email and news groups, I suggest to use the Gnus package (which is part of Emacs) for both. NTEmacs can be downloaded from GNU ftp sites. The disadvantage is that you cannot debug or recompile it without having MSVC development tools installed. The Emacs FAQ (included with the DJGPP port) has some pointers to NTEmacs-related sites and FAQs. Of course, given enough motivation, you could make the network support work with the DJGPP version of Emacs as well ;-).