Chapter 29. Reading Mail with Rmail

Table of Contents
29.1. Basic Concepts of Rmail
29.2. Scrolling Within a Message
29.3. Moving Among Messages
29.4. Deleting Messages
29.5. Rmail Files and Inboxes
29.6. Multiple Rmail Files
29.7. Copying Messages Out to Files
29.8. Labels
29.9. Rmail Attributes
29.10. Sending Replies
29.11. Summaries
29.11.1. Making Summaries
29.11.2. Editing in Summaries
29.12. Sorting the Rmail File
29.13. Display of Messages
29.14. Rmail and Coding Systems
29.15. Editing Within a Message
29.16. Digest Messages
29.17. Converting an Rmail File to Inbox Format
29.18. Reading Rot13 Messages
29.19. movemailand POP

Rmail is an Emacs subsystem for reading and disposing of mail that you receive. Rmail stores mail messages in files called Rmail files. Reading the message in an Rmail file is done in a special major mode, Rmail mode, which redefines most letters to run commands for managing mail. The command rmail-mode is used to switch into Rmail mode, and it runs the hook rmail-mode-hook as usual, but don't run this command by hand; it can't do a reasonable job unless the buffer is visiting a proper Rmail file.