From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:25:34 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291894284 14266 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 11:31:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:31:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 12:31:20 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 1PQeiU-0008Ec-HY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:31:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39923 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQeat-0000TS-PV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:23:27 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!r29g2000yqj.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.57.142.200 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1290360334 3724 127.0.0.1 (21 Nov 2010 17:25:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:25:34 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r29g2000yqj.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.57.142.200; posting-account=czAMxQoAAAAUEojshw4CrIvcwSdulymE User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:182555 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:76987 Archived-At: On Nov 21, 3:09=A0am, James Freer wrote: > I'm just starting to use emacs for editing and thought about using it > for email as well. I'm a moderator for several groups and have found > Thunderbird a bit slow. I'm hoping that a text email may be quicker. I > tried Cone and Mutt a while ago. I need to use imap and was wondering > if i'd be better off with emacs addons. > > What are folk using WL or VM? I've read the gnus pdf and i think i'd > be better off with one of those two. > > As for installing: > WL seems ok to followhttp://box.matto.nl/emacsgmail.html > > VM i find a little heavy! for my knowledge - is there another site > which is easier to follow for a newbiehttp://www.wonderworks.com/vm/user-= manual/vm_2.html#SEC5http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ViewMailAndImap > > thanks > james I'm a VM user on XEmacs. I wasn't even aware of Wanderlust until reading your post. I used to use Rmail with Emacs 19.34 on a Unix machine, but then moved to XEmacs and eventually started using VM. I now use a laptop at home and a desktop at work, both running Windows XP (very rarely logging into a Unix machine). VM understands the babyl mail folder organization that Rmail used at the time, so that was a feature that I appreciated. The newsgroup gnu.emacs.vm.info is moderately active and the current VM developers are active there. I use VM with an imap server at work. That was changed to use SSL and I had to resort to using stunnel with VM to continue. A VM feature that I find to be quite handy is a function "vm-delete-duplicate-messages". This allows me to combine multiple mail folders (e.g. folder at home and folder at work) and eliminate duplicate mail messages. I've even converted my old CompuServe emails to a VM mail folder. When desired I can read my Thunderbird email folders with VM. I go back and forth between using Thunderbird and VM with my work IMAP server (favoring Thunderbird for emails with embedded HTML tags). My personal email is on a Yahoo POP server and I mostly use Thunderbird for that.