From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs for email Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:58:50 +0200 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <87y6w1lvhh.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235137623 14054 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2009 13:47:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:47:03 +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 Feb 20 14:48:18 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 1LaVje-0001Xs-Fw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:48:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34419 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LaViK-00008Q-4H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:46:48 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FbrwDxch+n3lB5tFXKatpGcmBco= Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.49.14.211 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=NNibGX:koC5:YiKBaBLXD=YSB=nbEKnk; 5l7JOAVQ`j2L^Mj7bH?lJH1Tkj<2PiV:52AU04OL@ 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:62227 Archived-At: On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:11:45 +0000, James Freer wrote: > I've been trying to set up emacs for reading mail. I'm a bit lost as > so far i haven't found whether to set up rc files like you do for mutt > [.procmailrc, .muttrc, mstmprc, .fetchmailrc] or what? Rmail or Gnus > is part of emacs i understood although one can replace with VM. I personally prefer Gnus, but there are quite a few mail reading applications build on top of Emacs. You can see a nice list of them at the EmacsWiki. See for a list of mail-related pages. Gnus, VM and Wanderlust are AFAIK the most popular mailers :)