From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Alternatives to Gnus Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 11:37:50 +1000 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com Message-ID: <87fwwpnzm9.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> References: <049fd34b-8437-477a-bd95-ffbb8b80d787@m1g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> <87zkw1p036.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291869146 9154 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 04:32:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 04:32:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 05:32:21 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQYB3-0003l4-1K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:32:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49189 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQXnr-00080C-OZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:08:23 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border1.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZeOTprbQpyvLPUXb1HGMEAIXc20= Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 201036f9.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=k0b8_M9FEkgK; GKPh8BJfdL?0kYOcDh@jW\:Hm@YlDbjVkdH^i[BCoffZ03L>l_ePTEQN67Uj Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181611 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:76651 Archived-At: Markus Gessner 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 -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au