From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Memnon Anon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:51:04 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <878wffw5c3.fsf@mean.albasani.net> References: <20091013.171317.107723653.jeff@chaosphere.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255456568 4885 80.91.229.12 (13 Oct 2009 17:56:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:56:08 +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 Oct 13 19:55:58 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 1MxlbA-00071q-0T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:55:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41775 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mxlb9-0002ZD-FK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:55:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mxlak-0002Yw-1c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:55:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mxlae-0002Y6-Jr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:55:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46544 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mxlae-0002Y3-En for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:55:16 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50020) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mxlad-0002ma-W9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:55:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MxlaS-0006bP-Mi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:55:04 +0200 Original-Received: from e178214218.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.214.218]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:55:04 +0200 Original-Received: from gegendosenfleisch by e178214218.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:55:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178214218.adsl.alicedsl.de Cancel-Lock: sha1:XD8f9dhZo6IQadNRGmCO/l/i0RQ= 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:68921 Archived-At: Jeff Clough writes: > You like Gnus, I don't. Fair enough. This sums it up nicely ;) >> In short my email set up talks to an impa server, drags all emails in, >> splits them into different folders, I then use different smtp servers >> for sending depending on the posting style employed by that particular >> group. It all works very, very fast, efficiently and reliably with >> excellent customisation facilities. No. It's not "crap". > > So Gnus isn't crap as a *client* because you can do everything you > want by running multiple *servers*!?! I'm sorry, but in my world > "become a sysadmin for a handful of servers" is in no way a reasonable > solution to "i'd like to read my email now". However, you got something wrong here. posting styles is the same as "identities" in MS outlook, i.e. different names, different mailaddresses, different smtp-server (gmail, hotmail, gmx etc.). So, no one has to be sysadmin for a handful of servers ;). I agree to several points you made: a) Documentation is, well, not optimal. I got my config finally using quite a bit of time and bits and pieces from different homepages, emacswiki, etc. b) The mail=news=rssfeed etc. approach might not be optimal for everyone. c) If mew works great for you, just stay with it ;). I personally love gnus. Now that it works ;). If I lost my config, I am not sure I would go through the hazzle to refactor it again. But it is *not* necessary to "become a sysadmin for a handful of servers" ;).