From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus (was: Re: Help setting up POP3 email (rmail)) Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 03:28:51 +0100 Message-ID: <8737s9ipek.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <877fhonz96.fsf_-_@debian.uxu> <87mvqkuu0i.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456885772 11177 80.91.229.3 (2 Mar 2016 02:29:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 02:29:32 +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 Mar 02 03:29:25 2016 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 1aawXS-0000bd-Vs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 03:29:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53643 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aawXS-000264-7w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2016 21:29:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36621) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aawXH-00025T-6z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2016 21:29:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aawXC-0006f9-89 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2016 21:29:11 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38821) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aawXC-0006ey-1I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2016 21:29:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aawX8-0000NQ-M9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 03:29:02 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-54.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.54]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 03:29:02 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-54.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 03:29:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-54.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xCLwoicEabzfEt1UjxRroutD5fg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:109385 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe writes: >>> Regarding Gnus vs Rmail, what's the difference? >>> Rmail uses multiple mbox files and Gnus use >>> multiple mbox files by default. They're both the >>> same if you're tinkering with mail using command >>> line tools. >> >> Gnus is a universe in itself - much like Emacs > > Nothing of what you say across 3 emails addresses > the point I made above. The difference between Rmail and Gnus is that: - Rmail is an application with a limited scope: virtually an Emacs interface which allows you to fetch mails from a mail server and then have them displayed and browsable. - Gnus is an ever-expanding system of programs which by now encompasses huge parts of all human communication that at this point is done with computers, offering multiple backends and methods available for each and every one of them, including mails (also the compose part which Rmail doesn't do - as for the fetching/organizing there are several backends and surplus programs considerably more advanced than anything Rmail does, e.g. scoring) - Gnus also comes with support for listbots (Gmane, the outstanding mail-to-NNTP gateway which is "Usenet 2.0"), plain Usenet (also NNTP, still available and carrying unique material), blogs (Gwene, also a gateway), and RSS - with integration with web browsers and many other odd but interesting features, and with many more to come. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573