From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Anyone gone from mutt to Emacs? was: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar Date: 12 Oct 2009 17:08:42 GMT Message-ID: References: <87d45vhcuo.fsf@mahal.sjds.teklibre.org> <87zl7wlh7c.fsf@iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255369814 9846 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2009 17:50:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:50:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 12 19:50:04 2009 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 1MxP23-00031X-5A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:50:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51874 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MxP22-0003Gs-Q1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:50:02 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 44 Original-X-Trace: individual.net SuLyN7OM5oNn0i3dQsJd7QD6G1E4yx1MtgHTammTLCpoHNbJOu Cancel-Lock: sha1:jd7gs4I6DyN8eVWt3BPKy4xHkoY= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173806 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:68896 Archived-At: Teemu Likonen wrote: > On 2009-10-12 15:22 (UTC), Joost Kremers wrote: > >> Gnus for news is fine, slrn works in much the same way, but I couldn't >> get used to Gnus' handling of email. Gnus treats every mail folder in >> the same way that it does a news group, and I simply couldn't get used >> to that. > > Do you mean that by default it shows only new messages when you enter a > mail group? That was the major problem, yes. I recently took another look at Gnus and noted that the manual said it is possible but cumbersome to make Gnus work like a more "standard" mail client. > If so I'd like to point out that you can configure Gnus to > always show all messages if you want to. But I'd like to keep that behaviour for news groups. (Even better would be if that behaviour is configurable for each mail folder separately, so I could read mailing lists as if they were news groups.) > At least I feel that I can make > Gnus look like a normal mail client. Another thing I didn't like about Gnus' handling of mail was the fact that you have to enter a mail folder explicitly. If mutt is started, it automatically enters the default mail folder, which is where most of my mail comes in. I have two IMAP accounts on different servers. In my current setup I have three mutt instances running inside a screen session, so that I can switch very quickly between the two IMAP servers (each opened in a separate mutt) and my local mail boxes (opened in the third mutt). I haven't found a way to replicate such a setup with Gnus. I also seem to remember that Gnus doesn't check for new mail automatically and checking for new mail manually would freeze Emacs until all groups and IMAP folders were checked, with would often take quite a long time... -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)