From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reading/Managing mail with emacs Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:54:00 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87wstvrayv.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <47074AAA.5040502@walrond.org> <877ilw1jcb.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191984043 29076 80.91.229.12 (10 Oct 2007 02:40:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:40:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 10 04:40:41 2007 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 4.50) id 1IfRV2-000196-Gx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:40:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IfRUw-0002Sa-H6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:40:34 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xt-sjc-02!sn-xt-sjc-06!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eIYE7iL6kDNBEpOLVUKFgMii0as= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 43 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152782 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:48279 Archived-At: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes: > Sven Bretfeld writes: > >> On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 09:43:22AM +0100, Andrew Walrond wrote: >>> So, a quick google reveals VM as the front runner for email. Am I right? >>> Any gotchas or missing features to be aware of? > > A missing feature: somebody told me it's not being maintained. > Then they were wrong. It is being actively maintained. In fact, it is seeing a bit of revitalisation as some nice new features are being added. The new maintainer is Robert Widhopf-Fenk. See http://www.nongnu.org/viewmail/ for more details. > A gotcha: convert once locked up my computer completely while trying > to view a mail with attachments. > There were some issues with the mime converters, particularly under Debian for some reason, that would see load go through the roof and your system become non-responsive. the solution is to use the perl modules to do the mime conversion stuff rather than the old mime decoders that come with VM. > VM was great with XEmacs, when I switched to Emacs, everything went > all screwy. > Not sure what the issue would have been there. I've never run XEmacs and have had no other problems other than the one mentioned above and a problem with accessing attachments in messages composed with Apple Mail. both problems are now resolved. Robert has improved the MIME stuff and is working to clean up the code base and add new features (many of the ones which use to be in his 'vmrfaddons' package are now part of the latest version. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au