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From: martin@rochooni.net
Subject: Re: What's the state of the art for mail?
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 15:13:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kwk6xhi8ii.fsf@rochooni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0407010707140.1612-100000@localhost.localdomain


"g" == gebser  <gebser@speakeasy.net> writes:
 g> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 07:08:28 -0400
 g> Cc: GNU Emacs List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
 g> 
 g> At 16:28 (UTC+0200) on Mon, 14 Jun 2004 martin@rochooni.net said:
 g> 
 g> = ....
 g> =  JF> 
 g> =  JF> Switching from nn to Gnus improved my quality of life greatly.
 g> =  JF> However, I consider it a serious defect that it does not allow one to
 g> =  JF> examine mail (at least the sender & subject) before downloading it.
 g> = 
 g> = hi,
 g> = 
 g> = there is imap support by the nnimap backend.
 g> 
 g> And nnimap is used by gnus?

yes, you may browse the gnus info pages (type "C-h i m gnus") and the
news group gnu.emacs.gnus for details.

imap is the mail protocol, which allows by default just what you want,
i.e. viewing sender & subject in your mail folders on the mail server
without donloading the mail body.

martin

 g> 
 g> 
 g> = 
 g> = ...
 g> 
 g> 
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martin dot fischer at boschrexroth dot de

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-06 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-09 15:52 What's the state of the art for mail? kj
2004-06-09 16:20 ` Mike Irwin
2004-06-09 22:37   ` Joe Fineman
2004-06-10  9:30     ` Tim X
2004-06-14 14:28     ` martin
2004-07-01 11:08       ` gebser
2004-07-06 13:13         ` martin [this message]
2004-06-09 17:50 ` Tassilo Horn
2004-06-09 18:03 ` Bill Wohler
2004-06-09 18:30 ` kj
2004-06-10 17:22   ` Bill Wohler
2004-06-10  6:46 ` Xavier Maillard
2004-06-10 11:37   ` Marcus Frings

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