From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: package for Email Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:15:31 +0100 Message-ID: <87mt6fxoak.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13014"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:5zEI9tcppNsU3C5/Djwme/Suvsw= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 19 12:45:50 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pITMc-0003E8-Qm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 12:45:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pITMH-0007M3-JK; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 06:45:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pIKSt-0007Of-Lx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2023 21:15:44 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pIKSs-0000KC-1L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2023 21:15:43 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pIKSp-0008GX-Dq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:15:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 06:45:26 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:142411 Archived-At: Gottfried wrote: > 1. Which Email package do you use? Can you tell your > experience with your email package? Gnus ... > 2. Does it make sense for me as an emacs-newbie to change > from using thunderbird to an emacs email package? Yes, if you feel Emacs is the software for you. > 4. I prefer to habe folders because I like to have an > overview. Mu4e doesn't have folders. Gnus has folders, they are called groups. > 5. I want IMAP. Gnus has everything, it's the longest program ever written. > 8. Should I start with Rmail? and later switch to GNU? No. > 9. Or is it useful to start with GNU because it has more > options and I have to learn it anyhow? [...] Gnus has more options but you only learn the subset that you use. Some options you don't really learn, you learn them enough to put into a config file and then forget about them ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal