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From: "Tomasz J. Cholewo" <tjchol01@mecca.spd.louisville.edu>
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Subject: reportmail.el (was Re: Custom patch for id-select.el and time.el)
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Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> BTW, does anyone know why we ship both reportmail.el and time.el?
> They seem to overlap freely.  I felt kind of stupid when I almost
> finished the customization of reportmail.el, to see that time.el
> contains the (almost) exact same stuff.

I prefer reportmail.el to time.el because it has much better support for
text mode (in which balloon-help stuff is obviously not very useful).
In place of just 'Mail' (or a cute icon) in the mode line reportmail
shows the number of messages and the name of a sender of a last message,
e.g.:

  --**-*VM-mail*  [2: Hrvoje Niksic] 3:59pm   (Text Fill)--13/9--Bot---
  Mail from Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>

I am ready to convert to time.el as soon as it will be able to emulate
this behavior.  Jens?

reportmail can also run xbiff on messages matching specified selection
criteria but it looks like a pretty exotic task which can be performed
better by a procmail/xfaces combination.

Tom

