Re: What's the state of the art for mail?

[Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org>]

On  9 jun 2004, kj wrote:

> After all these years good ol' RMAIL's limitations are
> *finally* getting to me. I've stuck with it mostly out of
> inertia, and because it works well with Emacs.
> 
> My main concerns are to be able to use Emacs (or a faithful
> Emacs-like interface) to read my mail on Linux, to have no
> problems with MIME attachments, and no BABYL! (Availability of
> a Debian package is always a plus.)
> 
> Thanks for your suggestions!
> 
> kj
> 
> PS: I'm a bit leery about MH, mostly because a friend of mine
> who has used exmh for almost 10 years tells me that its MIME
> handling is a little bit long in the tooth. In particular, she
> noted that one needs to jump through hoops to make the quoting
> of messages that have MIME attachments work right.

Gnus is the way to go even if there are plenty of other MUAs.
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