From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Lundin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help 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 Message-ID: <87ljjgo6oe.fsf@fastmail.fm> References: <87d45vhcuo.fsf@mahal.sjds.teklibre.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255369411 8015 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2009 17:43:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:43:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 12 19:43:21 2009 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 4.50) id 1MxOvU-0007zc-Qy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:43:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36618 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MxOvU-0006RB-Ju for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:43:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MxOrS-00043Q-Ck for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MxOrO-0003zt-MF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:39:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59254 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MxOrO-0003zj-Aq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:54851) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MxOrN-0003qb-Gv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:39:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MxOrM-0005rI-52 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:39:00 +0200 Original-Received: from adsl-99-56-121-168.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net ([99.56.121.168]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:39:00 +0200 Original-Received: from mdl by adsl-99-56-121-168.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:39:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-99-56-121-168.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:o859Ki147vPar2pJCyb2ux3MJoA= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:68892 Archived-At: Joost Kremers 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