Re: Alternatives to Gnus

[Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>]

On Sep 2, 12:31 am, Tim X <t...@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
> Francis Moreau <francis.m...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Could the emacs users give me some alternatives ?
>
> I'm not convinced that there are any huge advantages in having the same
> program to both read/send/manage email and read/send/manage news.

Well a common interface: less key bindings, one config file etc...

> I use
> gnus for newsgroups and think its really good at that. I tried it for

I don't agree obviously.

> mail, but to be honest, found it less so. I therefore use VM and Mew for
> reading mail.

Why are you using both of them ?

>
> Mew also supports reading news, but I've never used it for that.
>

I took a quick look at its documentation and I haven't seen any news
reading support.

Is it well supported in Mew or is it something like using gnus for
emails ?

> I am a member of the VM developer team. VM is an excellent mail reader
> with a lot of power/flexibility, which has been around for a long time.
> After it's original developer moved on to other things, it did languish
> a bit. However, since last year, a number of people have been working on
> it to update it and integrate many of the add on features that have been
> contributed by various people. Development is very active and a number
> of enhancements have been added over the last few months, including
> improved imap integration, better threading, performance improvements
> for large mail files, thunderbird support and many other improvements.

Ok that sounds interesting but it leaves the question about the news
reader open.

> There is still a lot to be done, but if your after a stable mail reader
> which is under actie development with people who will respond to
> questions and bug reports etc, it is worth looking at. We would
> appreciate having more users who run under the console rather than GUI.
>

That's definitively a good point, and it one of the main reasons I'm
leaving gnus. I often felt lonely when I was hit by the numerous
issues I had with Gnus.

Thanks