From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: James Freer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:20:57 +0000 Message-ID: References: <4d643f0b$0$23752$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298453224 25058 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2011 09:27:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:27:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Uday Reddy Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 23 10:27:00 2011 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 1PsAzr-0003AH-9v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:26:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60939 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PsAzq-0005f7-Lx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:26:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46607 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PsAu5-0002fT-Ak for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:21:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PsAu4-0001Jy-0k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:21:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:63585) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PsAu3-0001JS-RS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:20:59 -0500 Original-Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so3087523wyi.0 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 01:20:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=MQF5U6Nk42GRieVmFNCiqNDTwj5HZSAh58xy+QUYkkQ=; b=I78VdA98AINtNCcgqvSX/jbo/wBmptdzobkayZXZX6KfRf0PzBhiGZEQgFgdqGHNdv CPKZe+D0TMk8K2V7zoBpn/mCca78Szt7q4zkTOgWmgVZ0BkQ3xe1vh63pNzdM6So/v0+ fV/yhOattwdtE75JtfSJNSD2EZmntQrSZdYLY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Jn4HvHeich5Svp+ECCPNEDjv7JQeWKyenpYsM7s4uiN21N8jG4AdhMnjSYwZV5aGkr R0l1iA5svUJSs9chpXh1x5X0sWp6tHAOGgEz/IoHNJVw2zsfB9/CoQXPnw6i1BOV5bPq OEfHeZ38vCqbiLvGgk4s6H7nWorU5h3BsLDiw= Original-Received: by 10.227.137.5 with SMTP id u5mr3340463wbt.6.1298452858294; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 01:20:58 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.227.127.193 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 01:20:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4d643f0b$0$23752$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 74.125.82.169 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:79381 Archived-At: On 22 February 2011 22:56, Uday Reddy wrote: > On 11/21/2010 9:09 AM, James Freer wrote: > >> 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 > > Hi, I haven't checked this newsgroup for a while, and just noticed that > there were queries about VM here. > > I rewrote to EmacsWiki page on ViewMailAndImap to make it easier. Please = try > it and let me have any comments. =A0It is not hard, really. Just a bit of > detail. =A0For the next release of VM, I am planning to introduce the URL > syntax for IMAP folders, which is now pretty much standardized. =A0That s= hould > make things easier still. > > For queries on VM, you would better of writing them or cross-posting to > gnu.emacs.vm.info newsgroup, which gets monitored much more regularly. > > Cheers, > Uday Reddy > Many thanks for the suggestion. I have to say that i don't find emacs particularly user friendly... i get the impression that it's intended to be like that - even after one's gone and bought the book. I did look into offlineimap but again i haven't found it easy to follow. james