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: Emacs for email: Rmail v VM v Gnus Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 23:22:01 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341354134 13104 80.91.229.3 (3 Jul 2012 22:22:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 22:22:14 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 04 00:22:14 2012 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 1SmBU5-0005cN-CD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:22:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33063 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SmBU4-0002FQ-59 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:22:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34776) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SmBTy-0002Ey-RT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:22:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SmBTw-0006GX-UR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:22:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:45669) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SmBTw-0006Fn-LH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:22:04 -0400 Original-Received: by eaan1 with SMTP id n1so2927921eaa.0 for ; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:22:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=uA1NhxAcC2fD5q14xeavLvjJOLjb37fMCo1cLkcSWx0=; b=OD6PuTjUEGzhknMYVJuB/CjJrzkI6HLrhHYuCZLm4q5nYrLJiAQTCoWTd6mfL5wkSl kpsQx70xVPy0lh1U0ugwrteP8ETrxMJnsWHmFSU7kxdlO2f3yrFCxx0aa8WzpQSe0lF7 BHXfYivC/hKPlHIp1OrXbUQ7g++XKKSKlFL/NZD3Ezbx+/ek8IAzYENrtmqbe4fu0Pse hyqoy8GI+mV4q+ZiupzxSwqdi72wKe4W9bChnkOa3gIdMCxCJrqfpzEGzzSiSKREYUXa HYKJdW0mkYH8WcidPyCYrUK1muM/RAGModXvEw9XarZZybXX/oRQ5/CfWx2f4FntuYmv 7wxg== Original-Received: by 10.14.22.5 with SMTP id s5mr4423976ees.226.1341354122001; Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:22:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.14.194.67 with HTTP; Tue, 3 Jul 2012 15:22:01 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.215.169 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:85636 Archived-At: I'm just learning about emacs and currently use Alpine for mail. Mainly due to it's speed; i gave up with Thunderbird and Evolution as they're too slow for imap... Mutt i did get it set up but it's too configurable for my liking. As i'm only after something simple i was thinking about Rmail. Since i last read the wiki (a while back now) it would appear that Rmail has been improved for Emacs 23 & 24 being much better for imap and offering conversation threads. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Rmail But reading the info i've got a bit confused - one place it says use MailMode and another use Fetchmail and Sendmail [also one's got Postfix, Exim, Courier to choose from]. What is best? Instructions are a bit more straightforward for VM and Gnus. I'd be grateful if someone could put me right on setting up Rmail, and perhaps if someone has experimented with all three give their feedback. Basically i want to try each and decide which i'd prefer. Starting to use emacs as my editor it seems appropriate to use a mail client within it. thanks james