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* email client for only reading email from mbox
@ 2014-11-27 16:44 right.ho
  2014-11-27 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
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  0 siblings, 2 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: right.ho @ 2014-11-27 16:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Dear experts,
   I have tried multiple emacs email clients (gnus, wanderlust and a bit of mew). Problem is that my company's IMAP server is very buggy - gmail imap works using similar configuration in gnus and wanderlust but my company's IMAP gives weird problems - hanging, showing a very small subset of mails. I never got around to setting up mew properly.

Thunderbird works tolerably - and I only need emacs to read mail. Not to fetch from IMAP, not to compose or send - just read and link from org-mode.

This gives me the idea that I should probably read thunderbird's mbox mail storage from emacs. But the "simple" configuration guides for all emacs email clients talk about the most popular use case - which is not mine. I am at my wits' end and turn to your expertise.

Setting up another local IMAP server has the problem that I have 10 GB email - millions in number. The machine I use at work is already not up to performing its usual work - I am not sure if I can burden it with IMAP server. Secondly I need to run on windows - dovecot sayis it is for UNIX.

Can one of you provide pointers to this usage? Summary :

I do NOT need :
1. fetching email, using IMAP or anything else.
2. sending email
3. filtering email
4. not particular on which emacs client to use, if it is good

Constraints I have :
1. Tons of email
2. Windows OS
3. Thunderbird's mbox files to be read-only
4. Reading mail and linking to mail from org-mode

thanks a lot
Bingo


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2014-11-27 16:44 email client for only reading email from mbox right.ho
2014-11-27 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-28  8:52   ` Rainer M Krug
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2014-11-28 19:29               ` right.ho
2014-11-28 22:21                 ` Eli Zaretskii
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