From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: right.ho@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: email client for only reading email from mbox Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 08:44:23 -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 1417110555 8549 80.91.229.3 (27 Nov 2014 17:49:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 17:49:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 27 18:49:09 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 1Xu3Bh-0008LF-Hb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:49:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41003 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xu3Bh-00045h-5B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 12:49:05 -0500 X-Received: by 10.50.30.5 with SMTP id o5mr1176539igh.1.1417106664137; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 08:44:24 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.30.202 with SMTP id u10mr446835igh.6.1417106664059; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 08:44:24 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!h15no8754963igd.0!news-out.google.com!d20ni730igz.0!nntp.google.com!h15no1147020igd.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=122.179.40.237; posting-account=dYXiLQoAAAARY8vP4VZ0Gj2WhNda0XaU Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.179.40.237 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 16:44:24 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208961 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 12:48:55 -0500 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:101241 Archived-At: Dear experts, I have tried multiple emacs email clients (gnus, wanderlust and a bit of= mew). Problem is that my company's IMAP server is very buggy - gmail imap = works using similar configuration in gnus and wanderlust but my company's I= MAP gives weird problems - hanging, showing a very small subset of mails. I= never got around to setting up mew properly. Thunderbird works tolerably - and I only need emacs to read mail. Not to fe= tch from IMAP, not to compose or send - just read and link from org-mode. This gives me the idea that I should probably read thunderbird's mbox mail = storage from emacs. But the "simple" configuration guides for all emacs ema= il clients talk about the most popular use case - which is not mine. I am a= t my wits' end and turn to your expertise. Setting up another local IMAP server has the problem that I have 10 GB emai= l - millions in number. The machine I use at work is already not up to perf= orming its usual work - I am not sure if I can burden it with IMAP server. = Secondly I need to run on windows - dovecot sayis it is for UNIX. Can one of you provide pointers to this usage? Summary : I do NOT need : 1. fetching email, using IMAP or anything else. 2. sending email 3. filtering email 4. not particular on which emacs client to use, if it is good Constraints I have : 1. Tons of email 2. Windows OS 3. Thunderbird's mbox files to be read-only 4. Reading mail and linking to mail from org-mode thanks a lot Bingo