From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Best Emacs Mail client. Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 08:54:20 +0100 Message-ID: <20191127075419.GD12856@protected.rcdrun.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="88453"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "M.R.P. zensky" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 27 08:54:38 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iZs9m-000MtU-6A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 08:54:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35538 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iZs9l-0004me-4E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 02:54:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35869) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iZs9Z-0004mL-Lt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 02:54:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iZs9Y-0007eW-31 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 02:54:25 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:47549) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iZs9X-0007do-SL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 02:54:24 -0500 Original-Received: from protected.rcdrun.com ([::ffff:90.137.137.44]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1) by stw1.rcdrun.com with UTF8ESMTPSA id 0000000000097C5C.000000005DDE2BAD.00006134; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:54:21 -0700 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1001) by protected.rcdrun.com with local id 00000000000CC57F.000000005DDE2BAC.000034EF; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 08:54:20 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 217.170.207.13 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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 Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:121899 Archived-At: * M.R.P. zensky [2019-10-29 23:06]: > Hello I wondering what the best mail client is for me to use. I do > not want to use gnus. I just want a really good mail client that can > handle pop and map. Can Rmail support POP and Imap? Should I look > elsware? Well... I also wonder about that. For me, so far, the best way to handle large amounts of emails is using emacs-libvterm module https://github.com/jixiuf/emacs-libvterm and mutt email client under the libvterm within emacs. http://www.mutt.org I am using Maildirs, for which Emacs does not have support, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir In my setup every conversation is saved to the ~/Maildir folder correspoding to the email, like ~/Maildir/user@example.com then I can quickly open up previous conversation with the user. Rmail reads from rmail/mbox file. Not from IMAP. POP you should not even use, change your provider if you are offered POP. Use always secure connections to IMAP. movemail software can move from IMAP to local folder. movemail utility you may find in GNU Mailutils, being better than the movemail bundled with the Emacs, see http://www.mailutils.org/ it works like charm, and it is GNU. It can do some serious magic in handling emails. My fcrontab entry is: @ 5 /home/data1/protected/bin/rcd/move-mail.lisp which is outside script that runs movemail for few IMAP boxes, and moves mail to local ~/Maildir but you could adapt it to move mail to local mbox file. Then you could read it with Rmail, which is quite good in handling emails, but not reliable for me, as I am accessing emails sometimes with multiple instances of mutt or other tools. There are other packages for email handling in Emacs, you could look in list of packages, like Wonderlust and MH-E which is I think built in package. MH-E is better than Rmail in my opinion, it has good features and handling of emails, see info for: mh-e Yet those I cannot use, as I am using Maildir format, for me, mutt is great solution, and it is running within Emacs frame. Jean