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2 @node Reading Mail, Calendar/Diary, Sending Mail, Top
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4 @cindex mail
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5 @cindex message
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10 The recommended mail-reading package for new users is VM. VM works
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11 with standard Unix-mail-format folders and was designed as a replacement
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12 for the older Rmail.
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17 with each message occupying one (numbered) file. This facilitates
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18 working with mail using shell commands, and many other features of
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25 also available as an XEmacs package. Gnus also handles Usenet articles
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26 as well as mail.
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28 @samp{MEW} (Messaging in the Emacs World) is another mail-reading
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29 package available for XEmacs.
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31 Finally, XEmacs provides the Rmail package. Rmail is (currently)
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32 the only mail reading package distributed with FSF GNU Emacs, and is
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33 powerful in its own right. However, it stores mail folders in a
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34 special format called @samp{Babyl}, that is incompatible with all
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35 other frequently-used mail programs. A utility program is provided
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36 for converting Babyl folders to standard Unix-mail format; however,
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37 unless you already have mail in Babyl-format folders, you should
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