From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: CHENG Gao Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OT -- An extremely dumb curiosity question? Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:26:58 +0800 Organization: cyberhut.org Message-ID: References: <1170949540.2898.24.camel@CASE> <45CBA71B.3030307@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171038480 24697 80.91.229.12 (9 Feb 2007 16:28:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:28:00 +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 Feb 09 17:27:51 2007 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 1HFYbG-0007ek-Fn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:27:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFYbF-0001wI-TP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:27:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFYb1-0001uD-AX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:27:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFYb0-0001tG-Nq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:27:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFYb0-0001si-Fu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:27:34 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HFYaz-00063u-Ug for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:27:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HFYal-0003WO-Ez for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:27:19 +0100 Original-Received: from 222.94.199.211 ([222.94.199.211]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:27:19 +0100 Original-Received: from chenggao by 222.94.199.211 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:27:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 222.94.199.211 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.0 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VPQcc45tquAUSj4Abs0rboRfncM= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:41021 Archived-At: *On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:59:43 +0200 * Eli Zaretskii climbed out of the dark hell and cried out: >> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:41:31 +0100 >> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" >> Cc: EMACS List >> >> I am using Thunderbird as my mail client. I found it too hard to get >> any Emacs mail client working on MS Windows. The instructions >> unfortunately did not seem trustworthy for MS Windows and I depend >> on that my mail client works without problems. > > I find the current instructions so easy and reliable that I cannot > understand how someone with your, Lennart, experience could not > succeed to set up email in Emacs on Windows. > > It worked for me 5 seconds after I installed Emacs on Windows for the > first time, as soon as I've set 3 variables (smtpmail-smtp-server, > smtpmail-smtp-service, and smtpmail-auth-credentials). Before dumping Windows, I used self built Emacs CVS with Gnus for some time (2 years? Dont remember). I dont think there is any difference from setting up in GNU/Linux or MacOSX (only I need set up to use bdf fonts). I installed cygwin, and built Emacs with mingw, and run from cygwin (for purpose of easily using cygwin apps like w3m, uncompface etc.). I am very happy for this, since when I move to my Mac and Ubuntu, I only need to copy two dirs out (~/gnus/ for all mails, score files etc, ~/.emacs.d/ for all Emacs related conf files), and put them under home dir, and voila! (This is one of the reasons I love Emacs/Gnus to death.)