Re: Rmail-mbox branch

[Paul Michael Reilly]

Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> Chong Yidong wrote:
...
> Also, there is one suggestion that Richard made that will facilitate
> automatic conversion of Babyl formatted file to mbox format.  This one
> should probably be completed before we make the switch.

It turns out this is already in Pmail.  In order to use Pmail without 
worrying about inflicting any damage to Rmail (RMAIL) do the following:

Copy RMAIL to PMAIL and then invoke M-x pmail with 'pmail-preserve-inbox 
set to t and everything else being equal, i.e. use the same setup for 
Pmail that you would for Rmail.

This will convert your PMAIL file to mbox format automagically and allow 
you to test Pmail and switch back to Rmail at any point without any loss 
of messages.

-pmr