From: Jeff Clough <jeff@chaosphere.com>
To: GNU Emacs List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:33:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AA6E9D5.9050800@chaosphere.com> (raw)
Okay, so I'm seriously considering switching from Thunderbird to Emacs
(under Windows XP) for my mail and calendar needs, but I haven't used
Emacs for either of these purposes in so long I don't know if it's
feasible, nor am I certain which modes are "best". I'm hoping that some
of you can point me in the right direction. I'd "just do it" as a test,
but I'd rather not go through a crap ton of hassle and problems only to
hear later "You should not have used foo mode for that, bar mode is what
you want".
If you've got a bit of spare time and want to know my specific desires
more deeply, please see the PS.
Thanks!
Jeff
P.S.
I need a fairly small number of features:
1. It needs to work on Windows XP without having to install a
unix/posix environment like Cygwin. I *am* willing to install discrete
utilities if necessary (if Emacs doesn't do POP on its own and needs
some external program to do it, for instance).
2. I have just under seven thousand messages in various folders (mbox
files) that I'll be wanting to keep, so it needs to not choke and die
when confronted with "many" messages.
3. I need to have my calendar appointments either in my face at all
times (I can live with it being in a split window or a new frame I just
leave open) or have the alarms/reminders be insistent and arbitrarily
settable (remind me 15 minutes in advance for this appointment and 30
minutes before this one). I have a lot of appointments and a very bad
memory for these sorts of things.
4. Reading HTML messages should be possible, but my needs here are
minimal. I'll settle for what Lynx looked like circa 1995. I just need
the message to be legible.
The things I'm hoping to get from moving to Emacs:
1. The ability to stay in Emacs for more of my tasks and use its
editing commands which are now so ingrained into my hands there's no
hope of going back.
2. The ability to search for messages and have the results be what I
want. That means finding all the messages with my search string and
*not* finding messages that don't have my search string. I thought this
is what "Search" implied, but Thunderbird has its own ideas.
3. The ability to use the keyboard for marking messages as read,
deleting messages, moving them around, etc. A lot of this stuff is
relegated to the mouse and switching from mouse to keyboard and back is
getting really special annoying.
Things I don't need:
1. I don't use newsgroups or to-do lists.
2. I don't care about in-line attachments and would prefer not to see
them anyway. As long as I can pull them out of the message and save
them somewhere sane, that works for me.
3. Bonus points if I can diddle a link in an email message and have
Emacs bring it up in Firefox, but I'm not married to it.
Thanks for listening!
--
Author of the Genesys System
A "free" universal role-playing game.
http://www.chaosphere.com/genesys/
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2009-09-08 23:33 Jeff Clough [this message]
2009-09-09 2:55 ` Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar Bastien
2009-09-09 9:45 ` Tassilo Horn
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2009-09-09 10:08 ` Torsten Mueller
2009-09-09 12:00 ` Andreas Politz
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2009-09-09 12:40 ` Torsten Mueller
2009-09-09 15:39 ` Andreas Politz
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2009-09-09 3:12 ` notbob
2009-09-09 7:18 ` Sébastien Vauban
2009-09-09 8:27 ` ken
2009-09-09 10:06 ` Andreas Politz
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2009-09-09 9:59 ` Sébastien Vauban
2009-09-09 23:31 ` ken
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2009-09-09 23:59 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-12 12:06 ` Francis Moreau
2009-10-12 12:47 ` Jeff Clough
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2009-10-12 12:56 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-12 13:40 ` Francis Moreau
2009-10-12 16:51 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-12 17:12 ` Andreas Politz
2009-10-13 13:29 ` Jeff Clough
[not found] ` <mailman.8683.1255440588.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-13 13:58 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-13 15:33 ` Jeff Clough
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2009-10-13 16:20 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-13 17:13 ` Jeff Clough
2009-10-13 17:51 ` Memnon Anon
2009-10-13 18:17 ` Matt Lundin
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2009-10-13 17:32 ` rustom
2009-10-13 17:40 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-13 17:35 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-13 19:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-10-15 19:59 ` Francis Moreau
2009-10-16 14:26 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-16 19:23 ` Francis Moreau
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2009-09-09 14:35 ` Richard Riley
2009-09-09 15:48 ` Jeff Clough
[not found] ` <mailman.6321.1252511354.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-10 5:17 ` Jason Rumney
2009-09-10 5:12 ` Jason Rumney
[not found] ` <4AA7B21C.4000008@chaosphere.com>
2009-09-09 14:35 ` Bastien
2009-09-09 15:28 ` Jeff Clough
2009-09-09 22:25 ` Bastien
2009-09-09 17:55 ` Jeff Clough
[not found] <mailman.6252.1252454441.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-13 1:06 ` Dave Täht
2009-10-12 2:11 ` Anyone gone from mutt to Emacs? was: " David Combs
2009-10-25 13:12 ` Dave Täht
2009-10-27 12:03 ` Francis Moreau
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