From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Anyone gone from mutt to Emacs? was: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:36:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljjgo6oe.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnhd6id3.emc.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl
Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> writes:
> David Combs wrote:
>> Question: I use mutt on my isp-shell-account, and like it,
>> and use .1% of its capability (I think, so powerful is it).
>> Has anyone switched from mutt to emacs (temporarily or not)?
>> Comments?
>
> I did, a couple of years ago, switching to mutt+slrn to Gnus. I ended
> up switching back after a month or so.
>
> Gnus for news is fine, slrn works in much the same way, but I couldn't
> get used to Gnus' handling of email. Gnus treats every mail folder in
> the same way that it does a news group, and I simply couldn't get used
> to that.
If I'm reading the manual correctly, you can change this behavior for
mail groups using group parameters:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Group-Parameters.html
(See the "display" option.)
>
> I've considered using one of the email clients for Emacs, but none
>seems to have been designed with the possibility of having more than
>one (IMAP)-server in mind.
I believe Wanderlust can handle multiple IMAP servers. See the syntax
for adding new IMAP groups/folders:
http://www.gohome.org/wl/doc/wl_19.html#SEC19
- Matt
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.6252.1252454441.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-13 1:06 ` Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar Dave Täht
2009-10-12 2:11 ` Anyone gone from mutt to Emacs? was: " David Combs
2009-10-12 12:25 ` Matt Lundin
2009-10-12 18:34 ` Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2009-10-12 15:22 ` Joost Kremers
2009-10-12 16:17 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-10-12 17:08 ` Joost Kremers
2009-10-12 19:12 ` Gnus for Mail (was: Anyone gone from mutt to Emacs? was: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar) Reiner Steib
2009-10-13 19:35 ` Gnus for Mail Ted Zlatanov
2009-10-12 16:50 ` Anyone gone from mutt to Emacs? was: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar Richard Riley
2009-10-12 17:36 ` Matt Lundin [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.8624.1255369149.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-13 6:36 ` Tim X
2009-10-14 15:47 ` Jonathan Groll
2009-10-14 17:03 ` Gnus for Mail (was: Anyone gone from mutt to Emacs? was: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar) Reiner Steib
[not found] ` <mailman.8795.1255535276.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-14 16:10 ` Anyone gone from mutt to Emacs? was: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar Richard Riley
2009-10-25 13:12 ` Dave Täht
2009-10-27 12:03 ` Francis Moreau
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