From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francesco Mazzoli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for email: Rmail v VM v Gnus Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:09:42 +0100 Message-ID: <87mx39x5uh.wl%f@mazzo.li> References: <7rd34alogt.fsf@ws796-of-spb.ru.yotateam.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341785399 31460 80.91.229.3 (8 Jul 2012 22:09:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 22:09:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Filipp Gunbin Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 09 00:09:59 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 1Snzfw-0005h8-Bd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:09:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47771 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Snzfv-0008PG-4z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2012 18:09:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41044) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Snzfq-0008PA-Ay for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2012 18:09:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Snzfo-00058e-KR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2012 18:09:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-we0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:53939) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Snzfo-00058X-EV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2012 18:09:48 -0400 Original-Received: by werl57 with SMTP id l57so2972138wer.0 for ; Sun, 08 Jul 2012 15:09:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=date:message-id:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=cKDiS8iCmL9Xb+sO8Wgj7++s50rUXyKFeCjDNTndVkI=; b=dcXuZE0Fgngg0HBeVpYTiUiEinJfWlUVQg+FI7tMeb9iW2XCo8/9B2yHMoE4tl0h07 JTm7HpzZvXBvDq2J4JfffSqezrGawbOCicD3HpnT9wkX0Yi44NrLfaZhK+ObqsUIxD0i D6sZ6gFfS0R2z4atvsG9W0Y8Tjca+Q5add4E2wMJEMwke3wd8/N1Asn4GVGRE0SvuLXy e+xqtXS2RmVXqc17vLqsV1zCUlFcwXTCuJ/VskyzW7ioUSqD49xwLJsdkC+/g/Kyfach TxM8s+H+L61ok6mxRWLvZGuXiVAr305mjKl9B4wiCmh9SB8A3w0QL1SJVIeM+M0TAqqt LZ0w== Original-Received: by 10.180.78.231 with SMTP id e7mr24329029wix.22.1341785385024; Sun, 08 Jul 2012 15:09:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from stringer.mazzo.li (host86-154-103-109.range86-154.btcentralplus.com. [86.154.103.109]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w7sm13647332wiz.0.2012.07.08.15.09.43 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 08 Jul 2012 15:09:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL/10.8 Emacs/23.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQl8a/7DfgsD11JM1b0PnBw32km+HohP3caS336ZdVbuPDZeuxrgQ/YtvyCUN5ramULUCLhH X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 74.125.82.169 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:85737 Archived-At: At Sun, 8 Jul 2012 22:50:46 +0100, James Freer wrote: > I much appreciated your reply but i'm still struggling with some > basics hence why i haven't replied earlier. Reading the emacs.pdf i am > hoping to set up Rmail 'remotely' - that is [as i understand it like i > have Alpine... using imap i am just using the email client to 'look' > straight at the server without downloading headers or the entire > message I don't think Rmail can do that. Wanderlust, Gnus and Mew do it, and from my (little) experience Wanderlust does it best. > use two machines so downloading mail doesn't seem the right > approach. Basically avoiding the adverts from the webmail interface and > hopefully a little customising to my liking and having a full screen for > reading mail. I hope to use the trmail [thread messages] programme listed on > Emacswiki. The alternative is to use something like offlineimap or similar software that synchronises IMAP folders with some local storage (in the case of offlineimap, Maildir). -- Francesco * Often in error, never in doubt