Re: [Sheflug] EMacs for mail - nearly there!!!

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Well, 

 after quite a bit of time, I figured I should at least put some
effort into figuring out this whole mail client/XEmacs/Emacs malarky.

So here you go...Baz's first (well, second...I sent a test message to
myself first).

Turns out that XEmacs (VM) rewrites the From header to make sense. It
knows I am TheEnglishman@ecosse.net and not baz [at] flux.localdomain,
although this is noted in the headers on outbound emails - is this
going to cause problems with some mailservers?

One thing I need - please, please - someone (Stephen?) tell me how the
"£)*&£% I set the background colours in this damned program!!! :-)

 I hate this default gray, and I can't for the life of me find the
option in the customize menus.

 The other thing is the .signature - or the lack of it. Can't find the
option for that either.

Is there a webpage and/or a man page that tells me roughly where to
find these things?

Cheers,

Baz.


 > "Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote:
 > > 
 > > >>>>> "Barrie" == Barrie Bremner <TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net> writes:
 > > 
 > >     Barrie>  I've been looking at my mail client recently and the idea
 > >     Barrie> of using XEmacs for email sounds interesting.
 > > 
 > >     Barrie>  How do I achieve it? Is there anyway of building support
 > >     Barrie> for GPG into the mail facilites?
 > > 
 > > Mail is easy.  Just select Read Mail (VM) from the Apps menu (21.1) or
 > > Tools | Internet (21.2).  I don't use the toolbar much, so I can't
 > > tell you offhand how to connect mail to the toolbar; the docstring
 > > fell on its arse (do C-h k <click on mail icon>, and tell me if you
 > > think what you get is "help"ful ;-), so I'd have to go digging.
 > 
 >  I think that I'm in over my head here. The documentation is "runs mail
 > reader" or words to that effect...
 > 
 > I actually don't use XEmacs, but rather Emacs (under X), if that makes
 > any difference.
 > Emacs doesn't seem to have VM, only RMail v5.
 > XEmacs is actually complaining about the contents of my .emacs file, by
 > the looks of things.
 > 
 > When it comes to customising XEmacs, I'm lost. I can select the
 > customize->applications->mail bit OK, but then my brain starts to hurt.
 > 
 > I'm rapidly tiring of Netscape however :-(
 > 
 > Has anyone noticed my unhealthy interest in Emacs?
 > 
 > Baz.
  
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