From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Lundin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Anyone gone from mutt to Emacs? was: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:25:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87d45vhcuo.fsf@mahal.sjds.teklibre.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255350383 3226 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2009 12:26:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:26:23 +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 14:26:13 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 1MxJye-00068o-Jo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:26:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37701 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MxJyd-0007vh-Vr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:26:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MxJy6-0007vX-Sn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:25:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MxJy2-0007qd-7b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:25:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41183 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MxJy1-0007qO-Ud for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:25:34 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:57138) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MxJy0-0002od-Og for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:25:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MxJxs-0005jl-VS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:25:24 +0200 Original-Received: from adsl-99-35-14-167.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net ([99.35.14.167]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:25:24 +0200 Original-Received: from mdl by adsl-99-35-14-167.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:25:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-99-35-14-167.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JK6QwTBqcVV/jbiqUxiz9lxnZ+M= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.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:68876 Archived-At: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes: > A top-post: Here, someone went from Thunderbird (gui, etc) to emacs, > showing what he had to do to succeed. (I include it all this once, so > if expired for you, is newified again.) > > Question: I use mutt on my isp-shell-account, and like it, and use .1% > of its capability (I think, so powerful is it). Has anyone switched > from mutt to emacs (temporarily or not)? Comments? Yes, I have. Both Gnus and Wanderlust are fantastic email clients. There are a lot of configuration examples online, if you want to get started with either of them. What specifically do you want to know? - Matt