From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs for email Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:15:50 +0100 Message-ID: <878wo1pamh.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235132203 28555 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2009 12:16:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:16:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 20 13:17:59 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 1LaUKE-000273-Ce for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:17:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33994 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LaUIt-0001Ww-T5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:16:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LaUIZ-0001WJ-1y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:16:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LaUIX-0001Vb-Li for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:16:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46544 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LaUIX-0001VU-F6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:16:05 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:52473 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LaUIX-0001EM-0p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:16:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LaUIS-00052P-D7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:16:00 +0000 Original-Received: from p54af2965.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([84.175.41.101]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:16:00 +0000 Original-Received: from tassilo by p54af2965.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:16:00 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54af2965.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vipJcBhuPuA0RmkzOlyTu5qsHU0= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:62226 Archived-At: James Freer 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