From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vagn Johansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Thunderbird to Emacs migration Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:55:05 +0100 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: References: <87y6hxku7l.fsf@kobe.laptop> <4b9b1ffb$0$29861$c33e2976@unlimited.newshosting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272993510 19418 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 17:18:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:18:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 19:18:29 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1O9LlM-0001o9-GM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 19:18:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34004 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9LlL-0000eC-T5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 13:18:27 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JrmLFvdu579HOEgD5EUs5AKfCio= Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89.239.196.180 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=@VIf7e=aSm>4J8>`6Toe6=YSB=nbEKnk; `\Fc^AXQGC:cXa`SU1m]j4Nm0b5S2HUf16b<5gS]39Y7`PhdIbblg`?PZe^a<92?O0 Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177460 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:72976 Archived-At: David Rogoff 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