From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?S=C3=A9bastien_Vauban?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:59:39 +0200 Organization: Sebastien Vauban Message-ID: <87y6ool9pw.fsf@mundaneum.com> References: <4AA6E9D5.9050800@chaosphere.com> <871vmgoaav.fsf@mundaneum.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252502070 1709 80.91.229.12 (9 Sep 2009 13:14:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 13:14:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Wed Sep 09 15:14:23 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 1MlN08-0006ZH-4l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:14:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43020 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MlN05-0008OI-Rg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:14:18 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!newsserver.news.garr.it!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 76 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1+fSK6HjENb9qGOqET5AxwnnkOrwJS3rmZJpCP8ZIQCUC0M6m3oDpnGuyFUEBGoTERQB/E5jdhFLDu35SIEmHB00M5MugeExCbp/aMJFrEZOnEaf+z4XYwH4PwPGV+J0xcisN8gtpTKvA== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse-VVbKFVtnif8H+i2N2EyTrmui9UKz+5OX@public.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 09:59:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19rmbR/MS+OUqueAvHcigPXR0e9AZ6Pvrg= X-Archive: encrypt X-Www-site: Under construction... Cancel-Lock: sha1:J0DUOxTBjofmd7bq6rTlGB9ftSA= sha1:I/A/8LgJtAxguYjEd3tQ4Z6dLN8= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172848 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:04:17 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.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-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67992 Archived-At: ken, ken wrote: > On 09/09/2009 03:18 AM S=C3=A9bastien Vauban wrote: >> notbob wrote: >>> On 2009-09-09, Bastien wrote: >>> >>>> AFAIK Emacs + Gnus works fine under Windows. >>> >>> Not my experience. I was never ever able to get gnus for newsgroups the= work >>> right under XP. I finally gave up and installed linux. A much better >>> solution all around. ;) >> >> Not my experience. I was able to use Gnus (yes, the best AFAIK) email un= der >> Windows XP for years. Now, I've switched to Linux for openness reasons, = but >> I still have colleagues using Gnus with MS OS (even Vista and Windows 7)= ... > > But gnus has been problemmatic for me. I have multiple email accounts whi= ch > I access using imaps (running on different servers). Setting these all up > and managing them is a snap with Thunderbird. On the other hand, I've spe= nd > *days* trying to get gnus to do the same and never did get them anything > close to working. So I gave up. There's too many other things in my life = to > do. It's true that setting up everything takes some time. But, once it's done, = you can go wherever (to client sites) with your config file and get the same le= vel of functionality as you had on your first PC. I am using Gnus for accessing the company IMAP server and different newsgro= ups (from our provider and from Gname). > If there's ever clear and accurate enough documentation on doing this, I > might attempt it again. My goal is to get my .gnus file published on the Web, for helping people (t= he same way I got helped by looking at other's config files). Though, I need to get my private stuff removed from this file. Not yet done. Could be in a couple of weeks from now. > (But then, how does gnus handle html-formatted emails with images (e.g., > photos)...? PDFs?) Not a prob'. Inlined photos are just seeable directly in the buffers. The same for HTML (with emacs-w3m and the w3m browser available from Cygwin= ). For HTML with Java inside, just K H to fire up Firefox with the mail contents... PDF are normal links. Just clicking on them opens up SumatraPDF under Windo= ws or okular under Linux. All of that in one config file, usable under both Windows and Linux, without any change. Just conditional setup. Seb --=20 S=C3=A9bastien Vauban