From: rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: IMAP with Rmail
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:00:40 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e4ee4eac-8b01-4ccf-bfa2-5a0cdec5b512@s38g2000prg.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 85skl32nrx.fsf@brighton.ac.uk
On Mar 24, 3:55 pm, Jim Burton <j.bur...@brighton.ac.uk> wrote:
> Byung-Hee HWANG <b...@izb.knu.ac.kr> writes:
> > Few days ago, i tried to enable IMAP with Rmail, Emacs's default
> > mailer. But Rmail seems not to offer IMAP yet. Is there anyone to use
> > IMAP with Rmail. Futhermore, am i connect on Gmail's IMAP with Rmail? If
> > it is possible, once i am willing to try to use Rmail because i believe
> > real emacs hacker prefer Rmail to the others.
>
> I haven't used Rmail myself (no surprise, since I am not a "real emacs
> hacker") but Gnus and Wanderlust both do IMAP, handle all mailbox
> formats, and are easy to set up with gmail. Personally, I found Gnus to
> be slow with IMAP mailboxes and have stuck with wl.
>
> AFAIK it's likely to be much harder to set this up with Rmail. If you
> can live with the diminished kudos, give one of them a try.
>
> --
> Jim Burton
> jb...@brighton.ac.uk
Rmail/WL/gnus?? Which is the easiest to script?
Requirement is to generate a small cooked automated mail to a fixed
set of recipients (through an IMAP server)
And one politically incorrect question: Is rmail a reasonable option
today? Does anyone use it??
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2009-03-24 10:55 ` IMAP with Rmail Jim Burton
2009-03-26 6:00 ` rustom [this message]
2009-03-24 16:36 ` Glenn Morris
2009-03-26 20:13 ` Reiner Steib
2009-03-27 0:46 ` Glenn Morris
2009-03-27 23:25 Xavier Maillard
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2009-03-24 8:14 Byung-Hee HWANG
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