Re: [VM] Emacs for email: Rmail v VM v Gnus

[Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org>]

James Freer <jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com> writes:

>
> As VM isn't part of gnu-emacs why has Rmail not been developed. There
> was a discussion thread a while back on how emacs could be improved.
> Emacs is "complete working environment" but for email for IMAP and
> virtual folders one has to turn to another app. Xemacs i believe has
> VM installed with it. Why not use Xemacs? well i found it fairly poor
> compared with gnu-emacs [well it doesn't seem to have been compiled
> properly for use on ubuntu somehow.]

Rmail is nice and simple; adding major new features to it would amount
to writing another new mail reader, which would be silly. Gnu Emacs
already ships with several ways to handle IMAP, at least one of which
(Gnus) also does virtual folders in several ways. And while VM may not
be included with Gnu Emacs, it is available as a system package on many
OS distributions (including Ubuntu) the same way that Emacs is. So there
are plenty of options.