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I'm surprised MH-E hasn't been mentioned. (MH was mentioned in past tense.) I have a whole system built on top of it. See https://github.com/e40/emacs-mail-

by e40 6y ago

I'm surprised MH-E hasn't been mentioned. (MH was mentioned in past tense.) I have a whole system built on top of it. See https://github.com/e40/emacs-mail-client https://github.com/e40/emacs-mail-client EDIT: I've been using MH-E to read email since the 80's.

DonHopkins 6y ago
Or RMAIL or BABYL! https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Babyl https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Babyl >BABYL is the name of an e-mail package created under ITS at the MIT AI Lab, written in TECO. It was a replacement for an earlier package called RMAIL. BABYL is still available under ITS and TOPS-20 (a DEC development of the TENEX operating system) both on real hardware and under the KLH10 and SimH emulators of the PDP-10 processor. The original RMAIL was restricted to ITS, and the source code was typically located in EMACS1;RMAILX >. >The internal format of BABYL mailbox files was retained when GNU Emacs was created, even though the facility was renamed “RMail”. Lovely TECO RMAIL source code: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/4e2ea8e4d851a0ea1f910c3001e5c2ddb9ff528c/src/emacs1/rmailx.1 https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/4e2ea8e4d851a0ea1f910c300... Oops, silly GitHub thinks TECO source code looks like a binary file! What are a few control characters between friends? Here it is as text (and quoted with escapes and control characters transliterated to ^[ etc.): https://donhopkins.com/home/code/teco/rmailx.1.txt https://donhopkins.com/home/code/teco/rmailx.1.txt !Re edit! 0U..H !* MAKE DISPLAY OCCUR?! [..J :I..JRMAIL-Mail^[ FSRGETTY^["E FT ^[ B,.T FT^[..A^[ .,ZT' !* give printing lusers some hope! ^R ]..J !* LET USER TYPE HIS REPLY IN! Q..0&337.-307."E ^\' Z"E ^\' !* IF HE DIDNT EXIT WITH ^G, AND DIDNT CLEAR THE BUFFER,! 1:< M(M.M &_Mail_Buffer^[)>F"E W^\' !* Mail the contents. Error => go back to editing. ! @:FG O Re edit^[ Aaaah, classic TECO, so well commented, elegantly indented, and easy on the eyes!
- perl4ever 6y ago
  Makes INTERCAL look kind of bland and unimaginative.
housel 6y ago
I also used MH-E in the 80s. Around the turn of the century I switched to Wanderlust (https://github.com/wanderlust/wanderlust https://github.com/wanderlust/wanderlust), since it could handle IMAP as well as interoperate with MH maildirs. It's not my primary e-mail client, but it is able to share my personal IMAP server with all of the other e-mail clients I use.

by e40 6y ago

DonHopkins 6y ago

Or RMAIL or BABYL! https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Babyl https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Babyl >BABYL is the name of an e-mail package created under ITS at the MIT AI Lab, written in TECO. It was a replacement for an earlier package called RMAIL. BABYL is still available under ITS and TOPS-20 (a DEC development of the TENEX operating system) both on real hardware and under the KLH10 and SimH emulators of the PDP-10 processor. The original RMAIL was restricted to ITS, and the source code was typically located in EMACS1;RMAILX >. >The internal format of BABYL mailbox files was retained when GNU Emacs was created, even though the facility was renamed “RMail”. Lovely TECO RMAIL source code: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/4e2ea8e4d851a0ea1f910c3001e5c2ddb9ff528c/src/emacs1/rmailx.1 https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/4e2ea8e4d851a0ea1f910c300... Oops, silly GitHub thinks TECO source code looks like a binary file! What are a few control characters between friends? Here it is as text (and quoted with escapes and control characters transliterated to ^[ etc.): https://donhopkins.com/home/code/teco/rmailx.1.txt https://donhopkins.com/home/code/teco/rmailx.1.txt !Re edit! 0U..H !* MAKE DISPLAY OCCUR?! [..J :I..JRMAIL-Mail^[ FSRGETTY^["E FT ^[ B,.T FT^[..A^[ .,ZT' !* give printing lusers some hope! ^R ]..J !* LET USER TYPE HIS REPLY IN! Q..0&337.-307."E ^\' Z"E ^\' !* IF HE DIDNT EXIT WITH ^G, AND DIDNT CLEAR THE BUFFER,! 1:< M(M.M &_Mail_Buffer^[)>F"E W^\' !* Mail the contents. Error => go back to editing. ! @:FG O Re edit^[ Aaaah, classic TECO, so well commented, elegantly indented, and easy on the eyes!

perl4ever 6y ago
Makes INTERCAL look kind of bland and unimaginative.

housel 6y ago

I also used MH-E in the 80s. Around the turn of the century I switched to Wanderlust (https://github.com/wanderlust/wanderlust https://github.com/wanderlust/wanderlust), since it could handle IMAP as well as interoperate with MH maildirs. It's not my primary e-mail client, but it is able to share my personal IMAP server with all of the other e-mail clients I use.