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From: alephnull@airtelbroadband.in (Alok G. Singh)
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Subject: Re: emacs MUAs with working smtp authentication?
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:04:00 +0530
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On 30 Aug 2006, minutiae@gmail.com wrote:

> Are there any emacs-based MUAs that handle smtp authentication more
> or less "out of the box" with the setting of a few
> clearly-documented variables?

Partly due to the single threaded nature of Emacs, I would suggest
that you leave the actual mail collection to fetchmail (or similar)
and just read from your mailbox.

-- 
Alok

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