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: More emacs instances Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:35:55 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <8762ze8w6k.fsf@mean.albasani.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281710205 18024 80.91.229.12 (13 Aug 2010 14:36:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:36:45 +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 Aug 13 16:36:41 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjvNA-0002TW-MW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:36:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46998 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjvNA-0002Bh-35 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:36:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55558 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjvMi-0002Aq-U7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:36:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjvMh-0003SF-6K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:36:12 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50186) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjvMg-0003Rp-Sy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:36:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjvMf-0002Ad-55 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:36:09 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:36:09 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:36:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 76 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:74607 Archived-At: Andrea Crotti writes: > Memnon Anon 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