Re: Soliciting Recommendations for a Mail Client

[Peter Jones <mlists@pmade.com>]

Dmitri Minaev wrote the following on Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:43:46PM +0500:
> "If you are used to traditional mail readers, but have decided to
> switch to reading mail with Gnus, you may find yourself experiencing
> something of a culture shock," says the manual, and a shock it was.
> "Gnus, by default, handles all its groups using the same approach.
> This approach is very newsreaderly--you enter a group, see the
> new/unread messages, and when you read the messages, they get marked
> as read, and you don't see them any more."  I know that if I forced
> myself into using Gnus for a month or two, I would've got used to this
> approach, but I found no real reasons to do so. I couldn't find the
> mail I needed, then they suddenly sprang up, then my mailbox was full,
> then I gave up. I use Gnus as a very good newsreader, the best I know,
> but for mail I have tools that suit me better :)


I only played with Gnus for about 30 minutes so far, but the message
disappearance did have me a bit confused.  I'd have to believe there
is a configuration variable to turn this off.  Anyone know what it is?

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Peter Jones
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