From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kj Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: What's the state of the art for mail? Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 15:52:25 +0000 (UTC) Organization: none Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088535142 15973 80.91.224.253 (29 Jun 2004 18:52:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 18:52:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 29 20:52:13 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfNiG-0002te-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:52:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfNjw-0000f4-So for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:53:56 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1086796345 28528 166.84.1.3 (9 Jun 2004 15:52:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 15:52:25 +0000 (UTC) X-No-Confirm: yes User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123712 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19079 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19079 After all these years good ol' RMAIL's limitations are *finally* getting to me. I've stuck with it mostly out of inertia, and because it works well with Emacs. My main concerns are to be able to use Emacs (or a faithful Emacs-like interface) to read my mail on Linux, to have no problems with MIME attachments, and no BABYL! (Availability of a Debian package is always a plus.) Thanks for your suggestions! kj PS: I'm a bit leery about MH, mostly because a friend of mine who has used exmh for almost 10 years tells me that its MIME handling is a little bit long in the tooth. In particular, she noted that one needs to jump through hoops to make the quoting of messages that have MIME attachments work right. -- NOTE: In my address everything before the period is backwards.