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More Rmail details.

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** Rmail

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*** Rmail no longer converts the messages to Babyl format.
Instead, it keeps them in their original mbox format, both on disk and
in Rmail buffers, and does conversion and decoding when a message is
displayed.

First time you visit an Rmail file in Babyl format, Rmail
automatically converts it to mbox format.  This is a one-time
conversion, but it can take a few minutes, depending on how fast is
your machine and on the size of the file.  You should find the rest of
Rmail usage unaltered.

However, M-x set-rmail-inbox-list now lasts only for one session
because there is no way to save the list of inbox files in an
mbox-format file.

FIXME: Add more mbox merge details

*** The command `rmail-redecode-body' no longer accepts the optional arg RAW.
Since Rmail now holds messages in their original undecoded form in a
separate buffer, `rmail-redecode-body' no longer encodes the original
message, and therefore there should be no need to avoid encoding it.

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** Rmail

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*** Rmail no longer converts the messages to Babyl format.
Instead, it uses UNIX mbox format, both on disk and in Rmail buffers,
and does conversion and decoding when a message is displayed.

The first time you visit an Rmail file in Babyl format, Rmail
automatically converts it to mbox format.  This is a one-time
conversion, but it can take a few minutes, depending on how fast is
your machine and on the size of the file.  You should find the rest of
Rmail usage unaltered.

However, M-x set-rmail-inbox-list now lasts only for one session
because there is no way to save the list of inbox files in an
mbox-format file.

If you have written any extensions to Rmail, they are likely to need
updating.  Conceptually, the Rmail buffer that you see is no longer
just a narrowed portion of the whole.  So you cannot access the whole
of a message (or message collection) by a simple save-restriction and
widen.  Instead, there are two buffers: the rmail-buffer, and the
rmail-view-buffer. The former is the buffer that you see, the latter
is invisible.  Most of the time, the invisible `view' buffer contains
the full contents of the Rmail file, and the Rmail buffer contains a
decoded copy of the current message (with only a subset of the
headers). In this state, Rmail is said to be `swapped'.

You may find the following functions useful:

`rmail-get-header' and `rmail-set-header' get or set the value of a
message header, whether or not it is currently visible.

`rmail-apply-in-message' is a general purpose function that calls a
function (with arguments) which you specify on the full text of a given
message.  To further narrow to just the headers, search forward for "\n\n".

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*** The new command `rmail-mime' displays MIME messages.
It is bound to `v' in Rmail buffers and summaries. It displays plain
text and multipart messages in a temporary buffer, and offers buttons
to save attachments.

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*** The command `rmail-redecode-body' no longer accepts the optional arg RAW.
Since Rmail now holds messages in their original undecoded form in a
separate buffer, `rmail-redecode-body' no longer encodes the original
message, and therefore there should be no need to avoid encoding it.