From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Wohler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for email: Rmail v VM v Gnus Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:45:24 -0700 Organization: Newt Software Message-ID: <87lii0iivf.fsf@olgas.newt.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343713548 10363 80.91.229.3 (31 Jul 2012 05:45:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 05:45:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 31 07:45:48 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sw5H7-0004qw-Uj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:45:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38001 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sw5H7-0004UH-AP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 01:45:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50729) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sw5H2-0004U6-Bi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 01:45:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sw5H1-00058B-8X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 01:45:40 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47605) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sw5H1-00056p-1F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 01:45:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sw5Gx-0004me-H3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:45:35 +0200 Original-Received: from c-24-6-48-5.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([24.6.48.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:45:35 +0200 Original-Received: from wohler by c-24-6-48-5.hsd1.ca.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:45:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-6-48-5.hsd1.ca.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/bKo4sOP0IoWkbPut0cEeTPMq30= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:86133 Archived-At: James Freer writes: > I'd be grateful if someone could put me right on setting up Rmail, and > perhaps if someone has experimented with all three give their > feedback. Basically i want to try each and decide which i'd prefer. > Starting to use emacs as my editor it seems appropriate to use a mail > client within it. I use fetchmail, procmail, MH-E. MH-E documentation is in info or in http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/manual/html/. -- Bill Wohler aka http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD