From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to set up Emacs as a mail client (with mail saved/filed on an IMAP server) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:35:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390538411 11117 80.91.229.3 (24 Jan 2014 04:40:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 04:40:11 +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 Jan 24 05:40:18 2014 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 1W6YZ0-0002Fe-5C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 05:40:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44355 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6YYz-0003sJ-Mu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:40:17 -0500 X-Received: by 10.66.231.74 with SMTP id te10mr4982849pac.16.1390538130595; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:35:30 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.108.180 with SMTP id j49mr6518qgf.21.1390538130540; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:35:30 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!ma3no462733pbc.0!news-out.google.com!y18ni636qap.1!nntp.google.com!k15no1868359qaq.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=142.176.57.239; posting-account=vjrvdQoAAAAQA6-MtQenD9GP17k0x15d Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.176.57.239 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 04:35:30 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203332 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:95600 Archived-At: I've been reading about getting email set up in Emacs for the past several = months, but I haven't yet come upon a satisfactory solution for me. I have = a few questions that I hope someone might answer. 1. Gnus: It has often been observed that mail and news are similar creature= s, so that it makes sense to handle mail in a system built for handling new= s. Certainly there are similarities. However, when I've read a news article= in Gnus, it disappears. That suits me well enough. But I don't want the ma= il in my inbox to disappear once it's been read. I'd like to be able to see= both my read and unread mail in my inbox and have the two distinguished in= some way. Doable? I'm guessing it is, but the second issue has precluded m= e looking up how to do it. 2. Gnus again: As far as I've been able to ascertain (and of course I might= be mistaken), Gnus does not support IMAP. To be sure it will download mail= from an IMAP server (I have that set up already), but that is not my use c= ase. I have my inboxes (the contents of which are retrieved from the outsid= e world by fetchmail) and about twenty-years worth of filed mail in a local= Dovecot IMAP server. I don't want my mail client (whatever I end up using)= to make its own local copy of my mail -- I want it to allow me to read the= mail in my IMAP inboxes, delete it on the rare occasions that I want to do= that, or file it in other folders on the IMAP server. Did I miss something= , or am I correct in thinking Gnus lacks the ability to interact with an IM= AP server in that way? 3. RMAIL: Again, can it interact with IMAP as above? The impression that I'= ve reached is that RMAIL is adamant about having it's own local copy of thi= ngs. 4. Mutt with Emacs as external editor: This is the solution I'm leaning tow= ards, but I'll be sad if I can't get an all-Emacs solution working. (After = all, I do almost everything else on my computer in Emacs.) Are there known = pitfalls to using Mutt with Emacs? Thank you to anyone with suggestions. N. Jackson.