From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: LEE Sau Dan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: IMAP clien for Emacs? Date: 05 Mar 2004 22:58:03 +0100 Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-7 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1078942165 1315 80.91.224.253 (10 Mar 2004 18:09:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:09:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 10 19:09:17 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B188q-0003CK-00 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:09:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B186t-00059V-Sk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:07:15 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-freiburg.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 59 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: savona.informatik.uni-freiburg.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:121506 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17499 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17499 >>>>> "fsu" == fsu writes: fsu> Hi, Currently I am running mutt in an OSX terminal as my fsu> email client with Emacs as the mail editor. Even though I fsu> like mutt a lot for speed and imap support, I would prefer an fsu> IMAP client in Emacs to avoid the endless switching between fsu> the apps, better customization through lisp and being able to fsu> read mail while replying to messages. Gnus. fsu> I have looked at three options so far, but would like some fsu> guidance on which one to use (gnus, vm and wanderlust). fsu> Important to me are: fsu> - Speed! At my site, the IMAP server works slowly. Gnus can't help with that. fsu> - Filing in IMAP mailboxes No problem. My site enables procmail by default, and I sort the mails directly by procmail (not by Gnus's filtering mechanism). The IMAP server sees only the sorted mailboxes. fsu> - Copying sent mail to IMAP mailbox No problem. Gnus let's you move mail from anything to anything, provided that the latter supports "writing" (i.e. no Dejanews for the destination.) fsu> - CRAM/MD5 What's that? Gnus works with mailcrypt.el, which signs, encrypts and verifies mails via GnuPG. fsu> and while traveling - Partial downloading of large messages Enable the "Agent" function of Gnus. fsu> - Disconnected operation I'm offline right now. Yes, I'm just posting news, not mails. But Gnus treat mail and news alike. -- Lee Sau Dan +Z05biGVm-(Big5) ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ) E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee