Re: Alternatives to Gnus

[Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net>]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, David Combs wrote:

> In article <049fd34b-8437-477a-bd95-ffbb8b80d787@m1g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>,
> Francis Moreau  <francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >After more than 2 years of gnus daily usage, I've finally decided to
> >give up :(: too much pain, too much trouble, too much complex, too
> >slow and too much wasted time. Gnus has definitively not been designed
> >for me.
> >
> >So I'd like to find something else to use (and I'm sure it should
> >exist because I'm pretty convinced that I'm not the only one in this
> >case) to read my emails and news groups.
> >
> >I started to use Gnus because I run emacs in terminal mode and I want
> >to do so when reading my emails/articles. I also want to use emacs to
> >compose them.
> >
> >From my point of view, the most important features are: stability/
> >robustness, speed and last but not the least usability. I think
> >Thunderbird has them but unfortunately it doesn't have a terminal mode
> >and can't use emacs in terminal mode to compose emails (yes it can
> >with emacs in window mode but it's quite hackish).
> >
> >Could the emacs users give me some alternatives ?
> >
> >Thanks
>
> Then trn4 is for you.  Try it; you will definitely like it.
>
> You will especially like the "t" command, that draws a 2-dim
> graph of the current thread, showing where you "are" in it,
> thus making it easier to traverse back into the tree.

Or the OP could try `Alpine', the successor to Pine. Although you are
not working in emacs, I personally have `Alpine' use emacs as the
alternate editor. As well, `Alpine' natively does NGs very well,
IMO. No fuss; no muss; no bother! Worth a shot!
-- 
Duke