From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Soliciting Recommendations for a Mail Client Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 02:00:04 +0200 Organization: GNU's Not UNIX! Message-ID: <200804060000.m36004Ch007656@localhost.localdomain> References: <20080404021252.GB67048@slim.pmade.com> Reply-To: Xavier Maillard NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207442531 22014 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2008 00:42:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 00:42:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Peter Jones Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 06 02:42:43 2008 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 1JiIy2-0006B8-Qk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:42:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JiIxP-0001F6-TE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:42:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JiIvB-0008Lj-GD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:39:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JiIv8-0008IG-6r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:39:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JiIv7-0008Hb-E3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:39:41 -0400 Original-Received: from master.uucpssh.org ([193.218.105.66]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JiIv7-0005on-5X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:39:41 -0400 Original-Received: by master.uucpssh.org (Postfix, from userid 10) id 24C24D73AB; Sun, 6 Apr 2008 02:37:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (IDENT:1000@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m36008Zv007665; Sun, 6 Apr 2008 02:00:08 +0200 Original-Received: (from xma@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.14.1/8.13.8/Submit) id m36004Ch007656; Sun, 6 Apr 2008 02:00:04 +0200 In-reply-to: <20080404021252.GB67048@slim.pmade.com> (message from Peter Jones on Fri, 4 Apr 2008 02:12:52 +0000) User-Agent: Rmail in GNU Emacs 23.0.60.3 on GNU/Linux Jabber-ID: xma01@jabber.fr X-uucpssh: Found to be clean X-uucpssh-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.36, required 4.6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.04, BAYES_00 -2.60, SPF_HELO_PASS -0.00) X-uucpssh-From: xma@gnu.org X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:53097 Archived-At: Hopefully I won't start a flame war... I've been using mutt for a bit over 10 years now, but I'm feeling the irresistible pull to deeper integrate my life with Emacs. Dunno for the other people but I like very much rmail. It is pretty basic and does not come with fancy features but it is easy to use, is bundled with emacs. The only big cons is that it just does not play well with MIME (though I do not care since I do not like to attach anything but inlined content to a mail. I do not like to receive attachment by mail just patches or things similar.) Rmail has a brother: VM. VM overloads rmail in many ways including MIME support. It's worth trying it if you feel rmail is too austere for you. Another popular MUA is probably Gnus which can deal with everything POP/IMAP/NNTP and various other things (slashdot, rss, ...). Though it is very powerful (I used it for several years) I switched to a more "basic" MUA (rmail) since I did not need all features bundled with Gnus. Hope that'll help. Xavier -- http://www.gnu.org http://www.april.org http://www.lolica.org