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[Discuss] Running a mail server, or not



On 6/28/2018 10:44 PM, Mike Small wrote:
> And then the IMAP client wouldn't have Gnus's killer feature, the
> ability to "expire" a mail so that it 1. isn't visible again unless I
> open the folder to show read articles and articles with similar kinds of
> marks and 2. in some number of weeks, but not the day before tomorrow

I wouldn't call that a feature per se. It's an artifact of Gnus treating
mail sources like Usenet news.

Personally, I gave up on using Emacs for reading mail. I had too many
file corruption problems caused by how RMS chose to implement 8-bit
character data.

-- 
Rich Pieri



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