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Date: Fri, 25 Jun 93 10:02:49 -0400
From: Peter Brown <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
In-Reply-To: [email protected]'s message of Fri, 25 Jun 1993 05:55:30 GMT
Subject: unrmail, or how to convert rmail files to the ordinary mailbox format

>>>>> On Fri, 25 Jun 1993 05:55:30 GMT, [email protected] (Marc Girod) said:

	Marc> I am being asked how to convert a large number of mails
	Marc> from the rmail format to the ordinary one.

	Marc> I found in my info a mention for 'M-x unrmail', and
	Marc> there is nothing like that to be found.

	Marc> I found then an answer (not checked yet) in the emacs
	Marc> faq, but what about this unrmail?  Does this only mean
	Marc> that I should get a newer info file?

Unrmail comes standard with Emacs 19 (at least since 19.10), in the
normal lisp directory.  Since you can't find unrmail, I suspect you
need, not a newer info file, but a newer Emacs.  (I would guess that
there is already a copy of Emacs 19 around your site somewhere, since
you seem to have the new info file.)  If that's no good for you, I
know there are a couple of rmail-to-mail converters on
archive.cis.ohio-state.edu under /pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive.  I have
no experience with any of these packages, so I'm afraid I can't tell
you too much beyond that they exist.

Hope this helps,
--Peter