Re: tlug: RMAIL mangles messages

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Drago" == Drago Goricanec <drago@example.com> writes:

    Drago> On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:55:00 +0900 (JST), "Stephen
    Drago> J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com> writes:

    >> >>>>> "Stuart" == Stuart Luppescu <s-luppescu@example.com>
    >> writes:
    >> 
    Stuart> I'm trying to use RMAIL in emacs 20.3 for my Japanese
    Stuart> mail,
    >> Very bad idea; RMail is obsolete and not maintained by anybody
    >> who knows anything about internationalization.  Switch to VM.

    Drago> Stephen, have you heard of mew?  Check out
    Drago> http://www.mew.org

Yes.  I've read the both the Lisp and the Perl code (about 50%, and a
much earlier version, admittedly, but these things tend to get worse,
not better, over time) and didn't trust it.

Several people on this list use Mew; it's probably pretty good for
Japanese.  But I don't recommend things unless I like them, and
preferably use them.  I just don't mention them.  Unless asked.

You asked.  :-/

Oh, and in this particular case, where Stuart is stuck with a possibly
munged mail file, one had better know the internals pretty well;
reading the RMAIL file with VM will probably result in near-100%
recovery of all data, and what VM doesn't recover will have already
been corrupted.  VM will not corrupt any existing data unless
specifically requested to do so.  I can say that with confidence
because I know how VM operates on mail folders.  Ditto Gnus.

Can you say the same for Mew?

    Drago> Do check it out.  BTW, you'll need to install the mh
    Drago> replacement called im (Internet Message).  It is written in
    Drago> Perl.

You mean the "Prohibitively Encoded Retrograde Language"? :-)

That's a minus, IMO.  And only my opinion, again.  That bears mostly
on what I will recommend, not on what other people should use.

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