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: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:45:26 +0200 Message-ID: <87eiqgpi2x.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <4AA6E9D5.9050800@chaosphere.com> <87ljkou8r3.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252489610 27178 80.91.229.12 (9 Sep 2009 09:46:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 09:46:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 09 11:46:43 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 1MlJl7-0004Ol-Cx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:46:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33475 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MlJl6-0006hu-JC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:46:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MlJkT-0006hp-0r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:45:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MlJkO-0006hN-TS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:45:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51186 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MlJkO-0006hK-H8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:45:52 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:37558) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MlJkN-0002rn-R3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:45:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MlJkM-00049G-3g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:45:50 +0200 Original-Received: from wlan-153.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.93.153]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:45:50 +0200 Original-Received: from tassilo by wlan-153.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:45:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 58 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: wlan-153.uni-koblenz.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oiEjSMVILBkjMAHpei2MbcWnYM8= 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:67986 Archived-At: Bastien 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