From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Thunderbird to Emacs migration Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:42:06 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <877hpfp1td.fsf@galatea.lan.informatimago.com> References: <87y6hxku7l.fsf@kobe.laptop> <4b9b1ffb$0$29861$c33e2976@unlimited.newshosting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272993571 19704 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 17:19:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:19:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 19:19:30 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9LmL-0002Ht-3e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 19:19:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34562 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9LmK-0000yh-FH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 13:19:28 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: individual.net YJgapuUzzPacPk7GPuuYogIROi7ayHhNsI173TU7SeKc9yMojX Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZjhlZGYzYTdhYzUxMTFkYmY5MmJlNjgzN2E4ZWUzMGY5YjQ2NDdkMQ== sha1:4iqtM+JUKHm9sCUOeVYqustWb+0= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (darwin) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177461 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:72977 Archived-At: Vagn Johansen writes: > David Rogoff writes: > >> vm is much easier to use for mail than gnus. gnus is great as a >> (text) Usenet newsreader, but it just wasn't designed as a mail >> program and the attempts to make it so have all seemed pretty crazy to >> me. I gave it a try for a while but it just required the user to do >> things the way gnus wanted and not what made sense as a mail program. > > Could you give some examples of how gnus is unlike a "normal" mail > program? > > As a gnus user I am genuinely curious. I wonder what I have forgotten > about "real" mail programs :-) For me, the most disturbing difference is how gnus hides read messages. When I read mail, I want to keep seeing the read messages. I keep in my mailboxes (including my INBOX) a lot of messages received (sometimes several years ago), that I still need to act on, and to be able to see. Kind of a constantly nabbing todo list... -- __Pascal Bourguignon__