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: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 02:00:04 +0200 Organization: GNU's Not UNIX! Message-ID: <200804070000.m37004EZ013279@localhost.localdomain> References: <87hcefznh2.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> Reply-To: Xavier Maillard NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207528774 13375 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2008 00:39:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 00:39:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Tim X Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 07 02:40:06 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 1JifP3-00028U-LC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:40:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JifOQ-0003Hv-Ae for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:39:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JifOA-0003GM-8l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:39:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JifO8-0003G0-Lb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:39:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JifO8-0003Fx-EG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:39:08 -0400 Original-Received: from master.uucpssh.org ([193.218.105.66]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JifO8-0003So-2a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:39:08 -0400 Original-Received: by master.uucpssh.org (Postfix, from userid 10) id 85CEFD74A7; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 02:37:52 +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 m37005X5013282; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 02:00:05 +0200 Original-Received: (from xma@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.14.1/8.13.8/Submit) id m37004EZ013279; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 02:00:04 +0200 In-reply-to: <87hcefznh2.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> (message from Tim X on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:11:37 +1000) 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=-4.368, required 4.6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.03, 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:53113 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. I've found that VM, mew and wonderlust are all quite good. I mainly use VM as that was the first emacs mail client I used. It has gone through a perod of less than desirable active maintenance, but now it is bieing actively maintained and developed again. This is the main reason why I quitted. I am happy to see this has changed. mh-e is quite good as well is you want to use mh style mailboxes. VM uses its own mbox style mail folders. mew can handle maildir and mbox and I can't remember what wonderlust uses. I have tested MH-E which is great but mh is hard to use. MH-E does not integrate fully with mh IMO (There are many things that mh supports and that you can't really use easily when in MH-E). Xavier -- http://www.gnu.org http://www.april.org http://www.lolica.org