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From: Carson Chittom <carson@wistly.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [VM] Emacs for email: Rmail v VM v Gnus
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:59:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4p8vdgqpjy.fsf@mspb.ms.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.7005.1344984971.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

James Freer <jessejazza@gmail.com> writes:

> Thing is i'd like to stay 'simple' but Rmail could at least be
> developed to handletake IMAP.
> Gnus is 'geek' application - "Lepers" like me struggle to get it setup.

And Emacs is simple?  The mere fact that there's a mail client, at all,
of any sort, included with a text editor (much less more than one) to my
mind pretty much throws "simple" by the wayside.  That's not a
criticism--I'm sending this from Gnus--but just an observation that if
simplicity is your goal, I'm not sure an MUA in Emacs is the way to go.

Also, I've never used VM, but looking at EmacsWiki's "QuickStart" page
for VM[1], it seems to me that putting

(setq vm-spool-files `((,vm-primary-inbox
                        "imap:HOST:PORT:MAILBOX:AUTH:USER:PASSWORD"
                        ,vm-crash-box)))

in ~/.vm isn't any more or less complex than putting

(setq gnus-select-method
      '(nnimap "mail"
               (nnimap-address "HOST")
               (nnimap-server-port PORT)
               (nnimap-stream AUTH)))

in ~/.gnus.

So I'm not sure where you're coming from.

[1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ViewMailQuickStart


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-15 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-03 22:22 Emacs for email: Rmail v VM v Gnus James Freer
2012-07-04  1:35 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-04 17:56   ` James Freer
2012-07-13  0:06     ` chad
2012-07-13 22:02       ` James Freer
2012-07-13 22:12         ` James Freer
     [not found]     ` <mailman.4670.1342138516.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
     [not found]       ` <mailman.4670.1342138516.855.help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-12  7:41         ` Uday Reddy
     [not found]           ` <20519.24129.473000.750075-4mDQ13Tdud8Jw5R7aSpS0dP8p4LwMBBS@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-14  9:21             ` James Freer
2012-08-14 23:21               ` Richard Riley
     [not found]           ` <mailman.6977.1344959485.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-14 18:25             ` [VM] " Lowell Gilbert
2012-08-14 22:56               ` James Freer
2012-08-14 23:23                 ` Richard Riley
     [not found]               ` <mailman.7005.1344984971.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-15 12:59                 ` Carson Chittom [this message]
2012-08-15 13:59                   ` Peter Davis
2012-08-15 23:19                     ` Richard Riley
2012-07-04 18:07 ` Francesco Mazzoli
2012-07-04 21:07   ` James Freer
2012-07-05  6:19     ` Filipp Gunbin
2012-07-05 13:07       ` Jeremy Nickurak
2012-07-08 21:50       ` James Freer
2012-07-08 22:09         ` Francesco Mazzoli
2012-07-09  6:24         ` Filipp Gunbin
2012-07-31  5:45 ` Bill Wohler
2012-08-02 22:12   ` James Freer
     [not found]   ` <mailman.6204.1343945551.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-03  1:57     ` Jason Earl
2012-08-03 16:20       ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2012-08-03 20:22         ` James Freer
2012-08-03 20:35           ` James Freer
2012-08-04  5:19             ` Laurent Hoeltgen
2012-08-03 22:33           ` Peter Münster
2012-08-04 19:21             ` Jeremiah Dodds
2012-08-04 21:34               ` James Freer
2012-08-04 21:50               ` Suvayu Ali
2012-08-09 21:52                 ` Rémi Letot
     [not found]                 ` <87y5lnafx9.fsf@poukram.net>
2012-08-09 22:59                   ` Suvayu Ali
2012-08-10 11:43                     ` Rémi Letot
2012-08-10  0:17                 ` Monte Stevens
2012-08-10  1:01                   ` Henri-Paul Indiogine
2012-08-10  1:40                   ` Suvayu Ali
     [not found]               ` <mailman.6327.1344116068.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-05  4:51                 ` dustin.hemmerling
2012-08-04 19:05       ` Bill Wohler

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