From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's the state of the art for mail? Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:46:13 +0200 Organization: GNU Rox ! Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088536152 19259 80.91.224.253 (29 Jun 2004 19:09:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:09:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 29 21:09:05 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfNm2-0003LC-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:56:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfNni-0003pE-68 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:57:50 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!feed.news.tiscali.de!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!proxad.net!nerim.net!biggoron.nerim.net!news.gnu-rox.org!news Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rms.gnu-rox.org Original-X-Trace: biggoron.nerim.net 1086850401 17126 213.41.134.247 (10 Jun 2004 06:53:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@nerim.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 06:53:21 +0000 (UTC) Mail-Copies-To: never X-Attribution: zeDek X-Face: "qG{UC8GPzro#PZ!Jgisuj0]=k10 f#d596CJMPGOGwB'j\^JR2g0']N%L:ylC`?.l8u#JuS#CygUA}avHHVJJ!#ub7CxX#u]g}?z,hQ; c q%v]"[$!BfS X-Accept-Language: fr-fr, en-en, en-fr User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WI5k4/+RwMV9ySveFHsZkol2IMw= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123727 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19144 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19144 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. -- In Gruuik we trust