From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:12:36 +0200 Message-ID: <8763ak8rjv.fsf@fh-trier.de> References: <4AA6E9D5.9050800@chaosphere.com> <37578bed-d355-4adf-aae1-319c9f002ecf@j19g2000yqk.googlegroups.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 1255367737 1638 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2009 17:15:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:15:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 12 19:15:27 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 1MxOUY-0002N4-8b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:15:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52075 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MxOUW-0004n0-Mf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:15:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MxOSa-0004M0-Sl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:13:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MxOSU-0004Ju-HZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:13:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51519 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MxOSS-0004JV-By for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:13:18 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43809) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MxOSR-000804-Jg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:13:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MxOSO-0001D5-AC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:13:12 +0200 Original-Received: from dslb-084-059-194-125.pools.arcor-ip.net ([84.59.194.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:13:12 +0200 Original-Received: from politza by dslb-084-059-194-125.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:13:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-084-059-194-125.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fHEAEfij/nB0cJtzQMf8kobgzsA= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:68891 Archived-At: Francis Moreau writes: > On Oct 12, 2:56 pm, Richard Riley wrote: >> Jeff Clough writes: >> > From: Francis Moreau >> > Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:06:16 -0700 (PDT) >> >> >> On Sep 9, 4:55 am, Bastien wrote: >> >> >> Don't get me wrong, I use GNUS (maybe because I spent so much time in >> >> it, I don't want to admit I was wrong ;) but you must be ready to >> >> spent some time to configure it and to adopt it and I'm wondering if >> >> it really worth the trouble specially if the OP is not interested in >> >> news group... >> >> > It wasn't worth it.  I use Mew for mail and it works just fine.  Well, >> > as good as Emacs works under Windows at all. >> >> I think it is worth it because of the benefits of it being cradled by >> mother Emacs : having all my normal text tools for translation, >> spelling, searching etc in my gnus buffers is just too cool. It all >> works together too well. I do remember being frustrated earlier because >> of the incomprehensible manual and the raft of options (and being newish >> to emacs). But it was worth it. > > But you probably get the same benefits with Mew... So what is your experience with Mew concerning ease of setup, huge mail boxes, message threading and general performance ? -ap