From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: James Freer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs for email Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:01:29 +0000 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235246524 19264 80.91.229.12 (21 Feb 2009 20:02:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:02:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs To: Francis Moreau Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 21 21:03:19 2009 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 4.50) id 1Lay4E-0007ua-6y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:03:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40996 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lay2u-0006tM-1g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:01:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lay2Z-0006t7-FZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:01:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lay2Y-0006sv-5L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:01:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51190 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lay2Y-0006ss-1U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:01:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.155]:50161) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lay2X-0003cY-ED for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:01:33 -0500 Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l27so1699941fgb.30 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:01:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=phTo32s1taybyU+qhqPHl0bL0+SQHv2XsQo46TFl3mI=; b=a5C6dm1yWkVN7FaPPSp3C0G4ObD0TKVJcxWA3d5YKbkgcZRxuta9g+Q/l9yGScsAZ3 vo9FEa6ZWRa9Diz2dm7ibrnprXXuF1zl8GR3vJHD7IEJIqQhPAY8SlF79N7PxlVgiEQl InjbXYlqn2OJztWMLtZfR9DWOPOqUO0Ze72pQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=IgnBiepB0GNTzFQON/9sYIktiP3IDUgpecj19JctTyK8MtsVYKUdFdoR0eqBAMcnly rg9tNJbVF4uJVyaZr5d9JvGNxMdrk9bQ9akatiQoqhjs5RJj0KmicLB9g5yP2vd2hCiw HJa1XfMEyBlD9z6sGqyMs7ZRYu/4wti0hubQE= Original-Received: by 10.86.51.2 with SMTP id y2mr1882358fgy.2.1235246489764; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:01:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:62249 Archived-At: Thank you for your help and comments. Just to recap i had wanted to use a text editor to speed up answering emails and considered Mutt and Emacs. I had used Thunderbird for sometime and liked the app. A text email client seemed the answer but i wasn't that impressed by Mutt. However, i'm not as knowledgeable as some and setting up Mutt was ok but still involved quite a bit of work. I got it all working and did appreciate your help. Emacs i struggled with! Yesterday i came across a Thunderbird addon Muttador (still beta stage - vi editor) and today came across a non-mozilla TB addon called Exteditor... http://globs.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=2 some v.clever person has developed an external editor addon instead of the TB editor. It allows emacs, vi, joe, gedit or whatever to compose emails. Should be of interest to anyone who wants to say goodbye to the mouse while editing emails. james 2009/2/20 Francis Moreau : > James Freer writes: > >> I've been trying to set up emacs for reading mail. I'm a bit lost as >> so far i haven't found whether to set up rc files like you do for mutt >> [.procmailrc, .muttrc, mstmprc, .fetchmailrc] or what? Rmail or Gnus >> is part of emacs i understood although one can replace with VM. >> >> Be grateful for advice or links as i think i've been looking in the >> wrong places - online manual seems v.brief and the emacs.pdf is a bit >> thin. > > I use gnus to read my email with emacs. > > BUT, I wouldn't recommend it if you're not confident with news stuff > and you haven't a lot of time for investigating how to setup gnus. > > I use to using mutt as well, and it's much more easier to setup and to > use than gnus. > > The main advantage with gnus is its ability to read news groups. > > For reading emails with emacs, there's also Mew but I haven't give it > a try. > > -- > Francis >