From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:45:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eiqgpi2x.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ljkou8r3.fsf@bzg.ath.cx
Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com> writes:
Hi!
>> Okay, so I'm seriously considering switching from Thunderbird to Emacs
>> (under Windows XP) for my mail and calendar needs, but I haven't used
>> Emacs for either of these purposes in so long I don't know if it's
>> feasible, nor am I certain which modes are "best". I'm hoping that some
>> of you can point me in the right direction. I'd "just do it" as a test,
>> but I'd rather not go through a crap ton of hassle and problems only to
>> hear later "You should not have used foo mode for that, bar mode is what
>> you want".
>
> Check Gnus and Org.
Seconded.
>> 2. I have just under seven thousand messages in various folders
>> (mbox files) that I'll be wanting to keep, so it needs to not choke
>> and die when confronted with "many" messages.
>
> It's okay.
But I don't know if mbox is the best backend for huge mailboxes. You
might want to consider installing a local IMAP server instead.
If that's not possible, maybe the nnml backend is the preferred
alternative for gnus.
>> 4. Reading HTML messages should be possible, but my needs here are
>> minimal. I'll settle for what Lynx looked like circa 1995. I just
>> need the message to be legible.
>
> Gnus can be configured to read HTML messages.
Yes, especially if it can use the w3m text browser + emacs-w3m to render
the messages. w3m would need to be installed separately, but I don't
know if it works on Windows.
>> 2. The ability to search for messages and have the results be what I
>> want. That means finding all the messages with my search string and
>> *not* finding messages that don't have my search string. I thought
>> this is what "Search" implied, but Thunderbird has its own ideas.
>
> Maybe that's the hardest part of your request.
>
> Under GNU/Linux, mairix (http://www.rpcurnow.force9.co.uk/mairix/)
> makes it very easy to search and find messages and Gnus has an
> interface to it (http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_43.html#SEC43).
>
> But mairix requires Cygwin to run under Windows.
I store all my mails in a local IMAP server. That server supports
indexing of mails, and using Gnus nnir backend I can quickly search for
mails.
Bye,
Tassilo
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2009-09-08 23:33 Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar Jeff Clough
2009-09-09 2:55 ` Bastien
2009-09-09 9:45 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
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2009-09-09 10:08 ` Torsten Mueller
2009-09-09 12:00 ` Andreas Politz
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2009-09-09 12:40 ` Torsten Mueller
2009-09-09 15:39 ` Andreas Politz
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2009-09-09 14:35 ` Richard Riley
2009-09-09 15:48 ` Jeff Clough
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2009-09-10 5:17 ` Jason Rumney
2009-09-10 5:12 ` Jason Rumney
[not found] ` <4AA7B21C.4000008@chaosphere.com>
2009-09-09 14:35 ` Bastien
2009-09-09 15:28 ` Jeff Clough
2009-09-09 22:25 ` Bastien
2009-09-09 17:55 ` Jeff Clough
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2009-09-09 3:12 ` notbob
2009-09-09 7:18 ` Sébastien Vauban
2009-09-09 8:27 ` ken
2009-09-09 10:06 ` Andreas Politz
[not found] ` <mailman.6288.1252484861.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-09 9:59 ` Sébastien Vauban
2009-09-09 23:31 ` ken
[not found] ` <mailman.6339.1252539077.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-09 23:59 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-12 12:06 ` Francis Moreau
2009-10-12 12:47 ` Jeff Clough
[not found] ` <mailman.8593.1255351673.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-12 12:56 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-12 13:40 ` Francis Moreau
2009-10-12 16:51 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-12 17:12 ` Andreas Politz
2009-10-13 13:29 ` Jeff Clough
[not found] ` <mailman.8683.1255440588.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-13 13:58 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-13 15:33 ` Jeff Clough
[not found] ` <mailman.8686.1255448028.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-13 16:20 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-13 17:13 ` Jeff Clough
2009-10-13 17:51 ` Memnon Anon
2009-10-13 18:17 ` Matt Lundin
[not found] ` <mailman.8690.1255454017.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-13 17:32 ` rustom
2009-10-13 17:40 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-13 17:35 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-13 19:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-10-15 19:59 ` Francis Moreau
2009-10-16 14:26 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-16 19:23 ` Francis Moreau
[not found] <mailman.6252.1252454441.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-13 1:06 ` Dave Täht
2009-10-12 2:11 ` Anyone gone from mutt to Emacs? was: " David Combs
2009-10-25 13:12 ` Dave Täht
2009-10-27 12:03 ` Francis Moreau
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