Re: More emacs instances

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com>]

Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> writes:

> Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know that alot of people actually use this solution (different
>> instances of emacs).
>>
>> I however really prefer to work in just one instance (with different
>> frames from time to time) and rather "fix" the parts that make emacs
>> feel unresponsive.
>>
>> Here are some of the solutions I came up with:
>>
>>   Mail:    msmtp+fetchmail
>>   News:    leafnode [you know gmane, right?!]
>>   IRC etc: bitlbee
>>
>> I have a decent, but really not 'state of the art' machine (Pentium III,
>> 1.2 Mhz,512 Mb Ram), but with these external helpers, emacs performs
>> flawlessly. 
>>
>> Memnon
>>   
>>   
>
> Ah yes I like this solution also and yes sure I know gmane, I'm using
> it also now.
> Even though I'm still not able to use it very well.
> On many mailing lists it doesn't I can't post even if I'm subscribed...
>
> And I also use fetchmail for some servers and I like it a lot.
> Would you have an example of this configuration (even in private)?
>
> Thanks a lot
>

I used to prefer getmail.

I had a small cronjob which calls this:-

,----
| #!/bin/bash
| host=$(hostname)
| mailserver="hermes.servername.net"
| if [ $host != "hermes.servername.net" ]
| then
|     echo "Doing remote call to mailserver $mailserver"
|     ssh $mailserver /home/shamrock/bin/getmails
|     exit
| fi
| 
| cmd="getmail -l -a -q"
| 
| for file in ~/.getmail/*.rc; do
|     cmd="$cmd --rcfile $file "
| done
| 
| $cmd
`----

man getmail for the account rc file formats.

But then I discovered offlineimap. Now I run offlineimap every ten
minutes or so which stores imap email from gmail into local maildirs and
I connect gnus directly to them. Fast and efficient. And easily
"cloneable" on my laptops.

This article proved useful :-

http://pbrisbin.com:8080/pages/mutt2.html