From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs for email
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:15:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wo1pamh.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dddf9a630902191511s315318abqcd79b7a4a587ce03@mail.gmail.com
James Freer <jessejazza@googlemail.com> writes:
Hi James,
> I've been trying to set up emacs for reading mail. I'm a bit lost as
> so far i haven't found whether to set up rc files like you do for mutt
> [.procmailrc, .muttrc, mstmprc, .fetchmailrc] or what? Rmail or Gnus
> is part of emacs i understood although one can replace with VM.
I'd recommend Gnus.
> Be grateful for advice or links as i think i've been looking in the
> wrong places - online manual seems v.brief and the emacs.pdf is a bit
> thin.
Emacs includes Gnus (and rmail) which has a very brief documentation in
the emacs manual, but the full gnus manual is included, too. Open emacs
and do `C-h i m gnus RET'.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-20 12:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-19 23:11 emacs for email James Freer
2009-02-20 12:15 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2009-02-22 17:04 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
[not found] ` <mailman.1503.1235345493.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-02-23 1:26 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-24 7:50 ` James Freer
2009-02-24 1:29 ` emacsnews
2009-02-25 3:15 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2009-02-25 7:45 ` Yuval Hager
2009-02-24 7:54 ` poppyer
[not found] <mailman.1226.1235085115.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-02-20 1:58 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-02-20 20:46 ` Francis Moreau
2009-02-21 20:01 ` James Freer
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2009-02-25 11:58 Xavier Maillard
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