Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar

[Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>]

On 13 oct, 15:58, Richard Riley <rileyrg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeff Clough <j...@chaosphere.com> writes:
> > From: Andreas Politz <poli...@fh-trier.de>
> > Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:12:36 +0200
>
> >> Francis Moreau <francis.m...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >>> On Oct 12, 2:56 pm, Richard Riley <rileyrg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> I think it is worth it because of the benefits of it being cradled by
> >>>> mother Emacs : having all my normal text tools for translation,
> >>>> spelling, searching etc in my gnus buffers is just too cool. It all
> >>>> works together too well. I do remember being frustrated earlier because
> >>>> of the incomprehensible manual and the raft of options (and being newish
> >>>> to emacs). But it was worth it.
>
> >>> But you probably get the same benefits with Mew...
>
> > Every Emacs feature I've wanted and tried to use works very well with
> > Mew, or at least no worse than to be expected under Windows.
>
> >> So what is your experience with Mew concerning ease of setup, huge mail
> >> boxes, message threading and general performance ?
>
> > Setting up Mew was several orders of magnitude easier than setting up
> > Gnus, which I was never able to successfully do.  A good part of this
>
> What part were you unable to do? Did you have it reading mail at all?
>

BTW, one thing is really annoying with gnus is that it screw all my
current window configuration (window layout) when I start composing a
new article/mail.

I did (setq gnus-use-full-window nil) but gnus always use a full
window when writing a new mail.

Do you  have/know any setup which could fix this behaviour ?

thanks