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: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:40:08 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255459252 15244 80.91.229.12 (13 Oct 2009 18:40:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:40:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 13 20:40:42 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 1MxmIc-0006SO-4T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:40:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49788 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MxmIb-0007a0-I6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:40:41 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news.k-dsl.de!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1/t0n7ysBJKygBZhhNwtPrhyZj8VGMeCP9V5TdCVFP0o7mIt4N+XTIowxiEAMrhH8ycLpAvtWIh3iAXFoP6QYmEnTmC24RwUydXKrquRgZmm1oCLC4O/OA3EVrZFVmkfYu+N9vSSQh2hQ== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:40:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+eiSw5PIGJN0QIp7fE5YZNN2uMlKuCK+U= Cancel-Lock: sha1:uMVs6+I8rF9c00p0RUkNdx2bc0I= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173842 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:68923 Archived-At: rustom writes: > Hi Richard > > The gnus manual reads in at near 500 pages. > Do you think thats a reasonable size document for a mail reader? > > Just curious > > Rustom I think the gnus manual is far from perfect. I am not aware of anyone that thinks it is. I certainly have never claimed that. It's why most people use google to get a "quick setup" solution. When its running THEN the manual is useful because Gnus IS a powerful bit of SW and its far more than just a "mail reader". But just for the record : I have not said Gnus is easy to set up. I have not said the manual is perfect. I have, however, said that vaunting the features of one MUA over Gnus when one has not even got Gnus working is somewhat naive and biased. With the power comes the complications I guess :-; I can only state that having got Gnus working the way I want its far and away more powerful than any other solution I have used in all the years I have used a mail/nntp client.