From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bkhl@elektrubadur.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F6rn_Lindstr=F6m?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Which mail client? Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 04:53:00 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, Sweden Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87r7tg13mp.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085022174 23462 80.91.224.253 (20 May 2004 03:02:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 03:02:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 20 05:02:47 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQdpW-0001Zn-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 05:02:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BQdoj-0008MU-M4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 May 2004 23:01:57 -0400 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Organisation: X-Home-Page: http://bkhl.elektrubadur.se/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MAU1p+tRk7VdXxYse7SxCfBIxkY= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: numerus.ling.uu.se Original-X-Trace: puffinus.its.uu.se 1085021581 numerus.ling.uu.se (20 May 2004 04:53:01 +0100) Original-Lines: 16 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!news.net.uni-c.dk!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!puffinus.its.uu.se Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123315 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:18611 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18611 Stefan Monnier writes: > Tho in practice if you want to directly access an IMAP mailbox (seems > to be the standard nowadays), I think Gnus is your only real choice. > he upside of that is that it's a pretty damn good choice. The only > problem I have with it is that its IMAP support is slow if you have > many folders. Another upside to Gnus is that it not only handles mail, but also news (and a few other things). Even if you're not interested in Usenet, you'll probably find that gmane.org is a great resource if you read a lot of mailing lists. -- Björn Lindström http://bkhl.elektrubadur.se/