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 email: Rmail v VM v Gnus Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 22:07:23 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87txxnxuvr.wl%f@mazzo.li> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341436057 13639 80.91.229.3 (4 Jul 2012 21:07:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 21:07:37 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 04 23:07:36 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 1SmWnN-0003La-Mb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 23:07:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40924 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SmWnM-0002Cc-Cn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37427) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SmWnH-0002CX-Id for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:07:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SmWnF-0005IO-Ez for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:07:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ee0-f41.google.com ([74.125.83.41]:33099) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SmWnF-0005I0-6e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:07:25 -0400 Original-Received: by eekb47 with SMTP id b47so3287614eek.0 for ; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:07:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=x3RTrDu8Hh5aN3QTHoAw1dy3e2pNk6l+12VglLpzKq8=; b=uDYqFONPf/lGTItB6eeuuDeIebhIkNIUEpV+Z+aXAps0foVZ53k+KTxdcGeisSuNOb tsXB4ACd8m62XJCdPcxc4l5FWr43SjtMczi5ksAETp7moHft7yysCeavJwCVfMDolGqb ySxzNV2YWEJiXpgpSLomq2VNuXtes0aqx5Z5hubG5cniz7WrGkNMpegW+6nIOpfTVBf/ L8rwGkc7JBHoTtdTXtnDV/wDoD5N1rI+Octy1bvFOst4zaSPXWSdiDT0MtDMjrz23v+g 4OnkBmcwz/QGCOCg2TOnvUxTrTp92/BThR+V/jv94GiHOQ3JFgepvlCSWtWWTuapTh/3 LlaQ== Original-Received: by 10.14.95.136 with SMTP id p8mr5645909eef.131.1341436043205; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:07:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.14.194.67 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Jul 2012 14:07:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87txxnxuvr.wl%f@mazzo.li> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 74.125.83.41 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:85667 Archived-At: On 4 July 2012 19:07, Francesco Mazzoli wrote: > Sorry if I sidetrack the conversation a bit, but I just want to > suggest Wanderlust, which has worked beautifully for me. > > If your goal is to read mail via IMAP, I think WL is the best > solution, and also the simplest, in the sense that you won't need > anything else apart from wanderlust (on the other hand, configuring WL > itself is a bit of an adventure). > > -- > Francesco * Often in error, never in doubt > Thanks I read about WL and it does look rather easier to me to set up than the others. I wanted to try each of them but does anyone use Rmail? if not why not? As i mentioned in the first post it does seem to have had a revamp recently as it was claimed it copes with conversation threads. james