From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs for email: Rmail v VM v Gnus
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:05:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehnmiil8.fsf@olgas.newt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87mx2cspnv.fsf@notengoamigos.org
Jason Earl <jearl@notengoamigos.org> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 02 2012, James Freer wrote:
>
>> On 31 July 2012 06:45, Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> wrote:
>>> James Freer <jessejazza@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I'd be grateful if someone could put me right on setting up Rmail,
>>>> and perhaps if someone has experimented with all three give their
>>>> feedback. Basically i want to try each and decide which i'd prefer.
>>>> Starting to use emacs as my editor it seems appropriate to use a
>>>> mail client within it.
>>>
>>> I use fetchmail, procmail, MH-E.
>>>
>>> MH-E documentation is in info or in
>>> http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/manual/html/.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> aka <Bill.Wohler@nasa.gov>
>>
>> I appreciate your replies but i haven't got far trying them out as i'm
>> having the central heating done and a number of domestic stuff.
>>
>> I would be grateful if someone could clarify a few points - vm seems
>> to happlily install on emacs 23 [i'm just experimenting at present
>> before i upgrade to xubuntu 12.04 which has emacs 24]. - Gnus wants
>> to uninstall emacs 23 and install emacs 22 as does mh-e. - wl ok on
>> emacs 23
>
> Gnus is included in Emacs 23. My guess is that your packaging system is
> downgrading Emacs so that it can install its own copy of Gnus. The
> version of Gnus that comes with Emacs 23 is probably what you want.
> Unless, of course, you want to use the newly release Emacs 24.
Ditto for MH-E. Both Emacs 23 and 24 come with the most recent version
of MH-E, I believe.
I take it you're not using Debian; MH-E in squeeze depends on emacs23 |
emacsen.
>
>> Is vm revised more than Gnus and mh-e? My compiling efforts weren't so
>> hot last time i tried so i'd prefer to stay with what's in the repos.
>> If these apps are more feature rich why does Rmail remain as the
>> default mail reader?
>
> If you want something that is easy to install then Gnus has the
> advantage of coming pre-installed on recent copies of GNU Emacs. The
> problem with Gnus (if there is a problem) is that it is so ridiculously
> flexible that it can be difficult to configure.
>
> Personally, I think that it is worth the effort, but not everyone feels
> the same way.
>
> Jason
>
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-03 22:22 Emacs for email: Rmail v VM v Gnus James Freer
2012-07-04 1:35 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-04 17:56 ` James Freer
2012-07-13 0:06 ` chad
2012-07-13 22:02 ` James Freer
2012-07-13 22:12 ` James Freer
[not found] ` <mailman.4670.1342138516.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <mailman.4670.1342138516.855.help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-12 7:41 ` Uday Reddy
[not found] ` <20519.24129.473000.750075-4mDQ13Tdud8Jw5R7aSpS0dP8p4LwMBBS@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-14 9:21 ` James Freer
2012-08-14 23:21 ` Richard Riley
[not found] ` <mailman.6977.1344959485.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-14 18:25 ` [VM] " Lowell Gilbert
2012-08-14 22:56 ` James Freer
2012-08-14 23:23 ` Richard Riley
[not found] ` <mailman.7005.1344984971.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-15 12:59 ` Carson Chittom
2012-08-15 13:59 ` Peter Davis
2012-08-15 23:19 ` Richard Riley
2012-07-04 18:07 ` Francesco Mazzoli
2012-07-04 21:07 ` James Freer
2012-07-05 6:19 ` Filipp Gunbin
2012-07-05 13:07 ` Jeremy Nickurak
2012-07-08 21:50 ` James Freer
2012-07-08 22:09 ` Francesco Mazzoli
2012-07-09 6:24 ` Filipp Gunbin
2012-07-31 5:45 ` Bill Wohler
2012-08-02 22:12 ` James Freer
[not found] ` <mailman.6204.1343945551.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-03 1:57 ` Jason Earl
2012-08-03 16:20 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2012-08-03 20:22 ` James Freer
2012-08-03 20:35 ` James Freer
2012-08-04 5:19 ` Laurent Hoeltgen
2012-08-03 22:33 ` Peter Münster
2012-08-04 19:21 ` Jeremiah Dodds
2012-08-04 21:34 ` James Freer
2012-08-04 21:50 ` Suvayu Ali
2012-08-09 21:52 ` Rémi Letot
[not found] ` <87y5lnafx9.fsf@poukram.net>
2012-08-09 22:59 ` Suvayu Ali
2012-08-10 11:43 ` Rémi Letot
2012-08-10 0:17 ` Monte Stevens
2012-08-10 1:01 ` Henri-Paul Indiogine
2012-08-10 1:40 ` Suvayu Ali
[not found] ` <mailman.6327.1344116068.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-05 4:51 ` dustin.hemmerling
2012-08-04 19:05 ` Bill Wohler [this message]
[not found] <mailman.3979.1341354129.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-04 19:05 ` harven
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