From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michal Sojka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:29:25 +0100 Message-ID: <87oc9gf1ga.fsf@steelpick.2x.cz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290529806 12666 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2010 16:30:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:30:06 +0000 (UTC) To: James Freer , emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 23 17:30:02 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PKvkm-0004OF-1n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:30:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41460 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PKvkl-0001i3-Fm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:29:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55192 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PKvkL-0001gr-KF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:29:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PKvkG-0007wq-DG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:29:33 -0500 Original-Received: from max.feld.cvut.cz ([147.32.192.36]:59069) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PKvkG-0007wg-5O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:29:28 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [192.168.200.4]) by max.feld.cvut.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3030C19F3353; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:29:27 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: IMAP AMAVIS Original-Received: from max.feld.cvut.cz ([192.168.200.1]) by localhost (styx.feld.cvut.cz [192.168.200.4]) (amavisd-new, port 10044) with ESMTP id QdjTJ5mtQOgS; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:29:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from imap.feld.cvut.cz (imap.feld.cvut.cz [147.32.192.34]) by max.feld.cvut.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75A0C19F334D; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:29:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from steelpick.2x.cz (note-sojka.felk.cvut.cz [147.32.86.30]) (Authenticated sender: sojkam1) by imap.feld.cvut.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8308C15C045; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:29:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from wsh by steelpick.2x.cz with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PKvkD-0008Nl-Ar; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:29:25 +0100 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Notmuch/0.5-11-g48b5e00 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.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:75424 Archived-At: On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, James Freer wrote: > I'm just starting to use emacs for editing and thought about using it > for email as well. I'm a moderator for several groups and have found > Thunderbird a bit slow. I'm hoping that a text email may be quicker. I > tried Cone and Mutt a while ago. I need to use imap and was wondering > if i'd be better off with emacs addons. > > What are folk using WL or VM? I've read the gnus pdf and i think i'd > be better off with one of those two. > > As for installing: > WL seems ok to follow > http://box.matto.nl/emacsgmail.html > > VM i find a little heavy! for my knowledge - is there another site > which is easier to follow for a newbie > http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/user-manual/vm_2.html#SEC5 > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ViewMailAndImap You may also try http://notmuchmail.org/. It is a search-based email client with Emacs UI. It is relatively young, but already very usable. If you need IMAP, you will probably want to combine it with offlineimap (https://github.com/jgoerzen/offlineimap/wiki). -Michal