Re: package for Email

[Leo Butler <Leo.Butler@umanitoba.ca>]

On Thu, Jan 19 2023, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Thursday, 19 Jan 2023 at 15:10, Martin Steffen wrote:
>> I agree (but qualified). I used RMAIL when I started with emacs (long
>> time ago, and I think I used other emacs email software), gnus is way
>> more versatile. One thing that may speak against it is it can be
>> complex.
>
> +1 having gone from RMAIL to VM to wl to gnus (with mutt somewhere in
> the middle).
>
>> Actually, I started having troubles locally, after my organization did
>> no longer supported IMAP properly (which as a consequence mean, all
>> email clients/user programs work excellently as long as they are called
>> outlook). 
>
> I've had the same problem including 2FA introduced two years ago.  I'm
> using davmail as an intermediary to ensure I can keep using gnus.  Works
> well.

I encountered the same problem when my employer introduced mandatory 2fa
last year. I use davmail+gnus like you, but I cannot recommend it:
davmail is fiendishly slow, does not cope well with a mobile existence
(i.e. suspend & resume) and makes a large number of mistakes involving
copying & deleting emails.

I would *love* to have a working 2fa layer for gnus that works as
painlessly as thunderbird's without needing something like davmail.

FWIW,
Leo