Re: Alternatives to Gnus

[dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)]

In article <049fd34b-8437-477a-bd95-ffbb8b80d787@m1g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>,
Francis Moreau  <francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>After more than 2 years of gnus daily usage, I've finally decided to
>give up :(: too much pain, too much trouble, too much complex, too
>slow and too much wasted time. Gnus has definitively not been designed
>for me.
>
>So I'd like to find something else to use (and I'm sure it should
>exist because I'm pretty convinced that I'm not the only one in this
>case) to read my emails and news groups.
>
>I started to use Gnus because I run emacs in terminal mode and I want
>to do so when reading my emails/articles. I also want to use emacs to
>compose them.
>
>From my point of view, the most important features are: stability/
>robustness, speed and last but not the least usability. I think
>Thunderbird has them but unfortunately it doesn't have a terminal mode
>and can't use emacs in terminal mode to compose emails (yes it can
>with emacs in window mode but it's quite hackish).
>
>Could the emacs users give me some alternatives ?
>
>Thanks

Then trn4 is for you.  Try it; you will definitely like it.

You will especially like the "t" command, that draws a 2-dim
graph of the current thread, showing where you "are" in it,
thus making it easier to traverse back into the tree.

David