From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:27:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4AA766ED.90204@mousecar.com> References: <4AA6E9D5.9050800@chaosphere.com> <871vmgoaav.fsf@mundaneum.com> Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252484902 12474 80.91.229.12 (9 Sep 2009 08:28:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:28:22 +0000 (UTC) To: =?UTF-8?B?U8OpYmFzdGllbiBWYXViYW4=?= , GNU Emacs List Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 09 10:28:15 2009 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 1MlIXA-0007Qz-P3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:28:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48891 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MlIX9-0007JZ-PA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:28:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MlIWh-0007If-Ps for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:27:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MlIWf-0007Ho-M1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:27:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42517 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MlIWf-0007He-GH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:27:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.194]:53261) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MlIWf-0005yz-3k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:27:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.26] (dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.11.17]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKpCa-1MlIWX0twF-000Cbo; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:27:31 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070326) In-Reply-To: <871vmgoaav.fsf@mundaneum.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=5AD091E7 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19QUMXCIIr2mrraEQ0iP1Dhg2ZVa5Wjmy6xQdQ 1qW4kwu8ta5MCrzSY9qIXwvaqfYN1c6i/mknEe6GxAQuYUizAb VYzNXS2kkkz3lUbgS061ADi/rDVWmXC X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:67984 Archived-At: On 09/09/2009 03:18 AM Sébastien Vauban wrote: > Hi, > > notbob wrote: >> On 2009-09-09, Bastien wrote: >>> AFAIK Emacs + Gnus works fine under Windows. >> Not my experience. I was never ever able to get gnus for newsgroups the work >> right under XP. I finally gave up and installed linux. A much better >> solution all around. ;) > > Not my experience. I was able to use Gnus (yes, the best AFAIK) email under > Windows XP for years. Now, I've switched to Linux for openness reasons, but I > still have colleagues using Gnus with MS OS (even Vista and Windows 7)... > > Seb > Totally with you on the second: Linux is more fun and more flexible and stable than any Windows OS I've ever used (and that's been a lot of them). But gnus has been problemmatic for me. I have multiple email accounts which I access using imaps (running on different servers). Setting these all up and managing them is a snap with Thunderbird. On the other hand, I've spend *days* trying to get gnus to do the same and never did get them anything close to working. So I gave up. There's too many other things in my life to do. If there's ever clear and accurate enough documentation on doing this, I might attempt it again. (But then, how does gnus handle html-formatted emails with images (e.g., photos)...? PDFs?)