From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: email with emacs Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 14:25:37 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <874oa1t4h6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293370833 12201 80.91.229.12 (26 Dec 2010 13:40:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 13:40:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 26 14:40:27 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PWqpn-0008CW-6l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2010 14:40:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40460 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PWqpm-0003TI-L9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:40:26 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uio.no!news.klingenberg.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 44 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1293369937 8288 85.183.18.158 (26 Dec 2010 13:25:37 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 13:25:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:183662 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:77896 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > prad writes: > >> i'm thinking of doing my email with emacs (using claws-mail right now). >> i need imap. >> >> so far i've looked at >> >> nmh - got it to work locally, but don't know how to do imap >> >> wl - got imap access (even got it to read gmail), but find things >> confusing >> >> mailutils - don't really know where to start in the documentation >> >> any comments on these packages or suggestions on what else to look at? > > gnus But be prepared to learn elisp and pull your hair out ;) Gnus is great. But you almost need to know it before you can get it to work. Kind of a vicious circle at times - especially when it comes to spam filtering and splitting. But Gnus is uber-powerful and brilliant and is worth sticking with. Gnus has come along a lot recently with regard to imap handling. If you are using Linux I would really recommend a local dovecot IMAP server and feed that using an offlineimap configuration. Particularly handy when you use multiple PCs. It's a great subset of knowledge you will pick up. Possibly that can be done in Windows too but I don't know. Some things to look up to wet your appetite:- topic gnus-posting-styles splitting Agent And of course it being inside emacs all the other benefits of it being hosted or part of Mother Emacs.