Re: Alternatives to Gnus

[Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>]

Markus Gessner <nospam@nospam.com> writes:

> Hello Tim,
>
> hope, it is not too late to enter the thread.
>
> On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:31:41 +1000, Tim X. wrote:
>
>> I'm not convinced that there are any huge advantages in having the
>> same program to both read/send/manage email and read/send/manage
>> news. I use gnus for newsgroups and think its really good at that. I
>> tried it for mail, but to be honest, found it less so. I therefore use
>> VM and Mew for reading mail.
>
> I find these news quite exciting. Up to several years ago, I used VM for
> my email for a long time, about 7 years. First with ordinary mail spool
> files and then with an IMAP-server, but just downloading the mail to a
> local directory.
>
> At some point it seemed, that Gnus was better at handling encoding
> problems, especially in the mail headers, so I started using it for
> email. Gnus is a great application, but I too have the impression, that
> its paradigms are better suited for news than for mail.
>
> Nevertheless, after starting to work in a different place, I now depend
> on real IMAP support, and somehow I got stuck with Thunderbird (having
> to work under MS-Windows a lot).
>
> If VM were on the way to support remote IMAP folders, it would be a
> great thing. I always found VM a pleasure to use -- everything quite to
> the point and very efficient.
>

Uday Reddy has put a lot of work into improving VM's support for imap -
well worth checking out. He has also implemented compatibility with
thunderbird mail folders. 

Tim


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