From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: email with emacs Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:20:03 -0800 Message-ID: <20101227122003.4d450680@psinom> References: <20101225164756.00976c54@psinom> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293481193 18680 80.91.229.12 (27 Dec 2010 20:19:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 20:19:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 27 21:19:49 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PXJXo-0003u5-Mz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:19:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45547 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PXJXn-0006Cp-Te for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:19:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42529 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PXJXS-0006CS-5B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:19:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PXJXR-0002nl-5D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:19:26 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:39979) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PXJXQ-0002nH-Qq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:19:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PXJXO-0003og-Ud for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:19:22 +0100 Original-Received: from 70.67.160.177 ([70.67.160.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:19:22 +0100 Original-Received: from prad by 70.67.160.177 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:19:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.67.160.177 X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.22.1; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:77918 Archived-At: On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 16:47:56 -0800 prad wrote: > any comments on these packages or suggestions on what else to look at? > thx everyone! i have rarely seen such universality of opinion on a package, so i decided to try gnus. actually, i had used it for newsgroups a bit a couple of years ago. it works smoothly so far and as tassilo said it works fine with a direct connection to imap. i'm interested in following up on richard's recommendation of a local imap with dovecot (we use that for our server anyway), because i'm intrigued by the idea, but first i want to see all the things gnu can do! i really appreciate the help here - i was looking at everything other than what i am now going to use thanks to your suggestions! -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's