From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:56:09 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <4AA6E9D5.9050800@chaosphere.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255355364 20369 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2009 13:49:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:49:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 12 15:49:16 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MxLFJ-0006t0-7F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:47:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39528 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MxLFI-0001CK-PT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:47:28 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!newsserver.news.garr.it!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1818w5edQXwB5Tix/0pc2YSdcUOzwMxYyH8QOJFLZlcjGIzeALPTk59tieoZK8QIJfWu5UtuhtWPnWfQaEica1d3GINGfNHfiiRZ7oiWjj7QB3+bmz0BRFqbBRRAxAEC5D/jPCRiCmawg== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:56:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1/hmPmO3d67AKGKfmQyZgPxUwL6DeQgvhA= Cancel-Lock: sha1:9EhgCDogtXu+qskOyH+vMNDHjO4= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173794 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68885 Archived-At: Jeff Clough writes: > From: Francis Moreau > Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:06:16 -0700 (PDT) > >> On Sep 9, 4:55 am, Bastien wrote: >> >> Don't get me wrong, I use GNUS (maybe because I spent so much time in >> it, I don't want to admit I was wrong ;) but you must be ready to >> spent some time to configure it and to adopt it and I'm wondering if >> it really worth the trouble specially if the OP is not interested in >> news group... >> > > It wasn't worth it. I use Mew for mail and it works just fine. Well, > as good as Emacs works under Windows at all. > > Jeff > > ---------- > Author of the Genesys System > A "free" universal role-playing game. > http://www.chaosphere.com/genesys/ > I think it is worth it because of the benefits of it being cradled by mother Emacs : having all my normal text tools for translation, spelling, searching etc in my gnus buffers is just too cool. It all works together too well. I do remember being frustrated earlier because of the incomprehensible manual and the raft of options (and being newish to emacs). But it was worth it. And there are tons of examples out there of working set ups where all that needs to be changed is the select method and a different .authinfo.