Re: Soliciting Recommendations for a Mail Client

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

Peter Jones <mlists@pmade.com> writes:

> Hopefully I won't start a flame war...
>
> I've been using mutt for a bit over 10 years now, but I'm feeling the
> irresistible pull to deeper integrate my life with Emacs.
>
> I'm sure that there are plenty of people on this list that would love
> to recommend their Emacs-based MUA to me, so please go for it.
>
> My mail currently comes in via sendmail, which then uses maildrop as
> the delivery agent.  Maildrop filters my mail and then drops it into
> one of several Maildir directories in ~/mail.
>
> I'm hoping to find something that works with my existing delivery
> setup, since I also sometimes use IMAP externally.  I'd be using Emacs
> local to the MTA and MDA, however.
>
> Thanks!


I've found that VM, mew and wonderlust are all quite good. I mainly use
VM as that was the first emacs mail client I used. It has gone through a
perod of less than desirable active maintenance, but now it is bieing
actively maintained and developed again. It has integration with bbdb
(address book plus more), emacs 22 pgp support, personality crisis (for
setting different return addresses depending on various criteria (good
for using work/home/other addresses easily. easy customization of mime
handling and the use of internal/external mime handlers etc. 

Mew and wonderlust are also quite good and have much of the same
functionality but tend to do everything themselves and not use other
packages as much, such as bbdb. 

mh-e is quite good as well is you want to use mh style mailboxes. VM
uses its own mbox style mail folders. mew can handle maildir and mbox
and I can't remember what wonderlust uses. 

HTH

Tim

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