From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to set up Emacs as a mail client (with mail saved/filed on an IMAP server) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 22:09:36 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87wqhguckf.fsf@moondust.localdomain> References: <87ha8t24v9.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <87d2jfy0qb.fsf@moondust.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391134211 30624 80.91.229.3 (31 Jan 2014 02:10:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 02:10:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 31 03:10:19 2014 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 1W93Yg-0002kL-Pj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 03:10:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52972 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W93Yg-0003wN-9Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 21:10:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!zen.net.uk!dedekind.zen.co.uk!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: nqJ/Dfd3FiiA8bL0+2/4Hg.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:3ueDBC53AP4CXOgFDHJd5vulNAo= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203550 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:95819 Archived-At: James Freer writes: > Well done because I found Gnus difficult to set up... and gave up. As far as using it is a mail client I gave up too (temporarily) the first time around. But after using it as a newsreader essentially as it came out of the box for several months, and gradually tweaking it to my liking, when I revisited using it as a mail client this month, things seemed an awful lot easier than they did back in the summer. (I'm not done yet though. The next challenge is outbound mail -- setting it up to let me choose between multiple smtp servers.) Part of the problem with it, I think, is that there's no easy way to approach the manual -- wherever you start you seem to be coming in in the middle. > I used Alpine which reads the server well and works fine with > emacs... for me and my more limited abilites. I did consider Alpine. I used Pine on a palmtop for many years and it was quite adequate, so Alpine seemed a plausible choice. I don't recall why I rejected it. I thought it was because I couldn't see in the manual how to set it up to use an external editor, but if you used it with Emacs, I must be mistaken about that. Still, I think I'll be a lot happier with the power and flexibility of Gnus now that I almost have it tamed! N.