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From: Vagn Johansen <gonz808@hotmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Thunderbird to Emacs migration
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:55:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m27hpffcsm.fsf@hotmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4b9b1ffb$0$29861$c33e2976@unlimited.newshosting.com

David Rogoff <david@therogoffs.com> writes:

> vm is much easier to use for mail than gnus.  gnus is great as a
> (text) Usenet newsreader, but it just wasn't designed as a mail
> program and the attempts to make it so have all seemed pretty crazy to
> me.  I gave it a try for a while but it just required the user to do
> things the way gnus wanted and not what made sense as a mail program.

Could you give some examples of how gnus is unlike a "normal" mail
program?

As a gnus user I am genuinely curious. I wonder what I have forgotten
about "real" mail programs :-)

-- 
Vagn Johansen


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-14  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-12 21:08 Thunderbird to Emacs migration John Bokma
2010-03-12 23:15 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2010-03-13  5:17   ` David Rogoff
2010-03-13 21:44     ` Giorgos Keramidas
2010-03-14  2:27     ` Galen Boyer
2010-03-14  9:55     ` Vagn Johansen [this message]
2010-03-14 11:42       ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-03-14 12:25         ` Teemu Likonen
2010-03-16 17:40     ` Uday S Reddy

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