From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Carson Chittom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [VM] Emacs for email: Rmail v VM v Gnus Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:59:13 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <4p8vdgqpjy.fsf@mspb.ms.gov> References: <20519.24129.473000.750075@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <44sjbp2uw5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1345035631 4444 80.91.229.3 (15 Aug 2012 13:00:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:00:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 15 15:00:32 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T1dCu-0006DW-Pj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:00:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37045 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1dCt-0003s9-Mt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:00:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8cd7023d0cfd11a7b50f08c0f21aebbb"; logging-data="31375"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX190dm7athM5ZuRLv914CeO8ExvkxbTXtYY=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iVKCTVJT2Bcupn2A7VdsDQIgiJg= sha1:BY5Qb55za6L3t8xL47BqkJaauGA= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:193977 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:86345 Archived-At: James Freer writes: > Thing is i'd like to stay 'simple' but Rmail could at least be > developed to handletake IMAP. > Gnus is 'geek' application - "Lepers" like me struggle to get it setup. And Emacs is simple? The mere fact that there's a mail client, at all, of any sort, included with a text editor (much less more than one) to my mind pretty much throws "simple" by the wayside. That's not a criticism--I'm sending this from Gnus--but just an observation that if simplicity is your goal, I'm not sure an MUA in Emacs is the way to go. Also, I've never used VM, but looking at EmacsWiki's "QuickStart" page for VM[1], it seems to me that putting (setq vm-spool-files `((,vm-primary-inbox "imap:HOST:PORT:MAILBOX:AUTH:USER:PASSWORD" ,vm-crash-box))) in ~/.vm isn't any more or less complex than putting (setq gnus-select-method '(nnimap "mail" (nnimap-address "HOST") (nnimap-server-port PORT) (nnimap-stream AUTH))) in ~/.gnus. So I'm not sure where you're coming from. [1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ViewMailQuickStart