Reformatted excerpts from Tero Tilus's message of 2009-10-12:

> RMail looks abandoned.  Development is pretty much stalled.  No
> functional changes since 2004-04-27.  None of the reported bugs have
> been fixed.  Might it be worth to think about switching to another
> mail lib?  TMail author's http://github.com/mikel/mail/ looks
> promising.

Yeah, this is certainly an option. But it seems like a lot of work. And
every day our set of rmail workarounds grows more robust. :)

Not to say I wouldn't accept a patch that magically did this all for me,
of course.
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