From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reading/Managing mail with emacs Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:34:09 +0530 Message-ID: References: <87wstz33hw.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191860666 3313 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2007 16:24:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:24:26 +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 08 18:24:24 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 1IevNr-0002r6-Kt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:23:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IevNm-00013a-2A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:23:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IevNT-00010Y-Bw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:22:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IevNR-0000xB-VE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:22:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IevNR-0000wu-GW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:22:41 -0400 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_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IevNR-000548-93 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:22:41 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IevKs-0006ps-Ba for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:20:02 +0000 Original-Received: from 59.96.56.92 ([59.96.56.92]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:20:02 +0000 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 59.96.56.92 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:20:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.96.56.92 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RMlLji4FocDK95dKmorfpcsritU= 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:48212 Archived-At: Tim X writes: [...] > > The 'heavy weight' is Gnus. I've looked at it, but to be honest, it has a > very very steep learning curve and will take a fair bit to configure. I use > Gnus for reading newsgroups and it is excellent at that. It is probably OK > for mail and lots of people love it, but I personally never felt > comfortable with it and at times, it took a lot of work to find out how to > do something which is normally fairly trivial. I also never got > comfortable with the mail like newsgroups approach it uses. However, those > who have put in the time and stuck with it will swear by it and are likely > to sacrifice key family members rather than give it up. I don't know if > this is because it is truely wonderful or if they feel they need to invest > in it totally in order to justify the effort it takes to get it working > just how you want. If you have unusual and extreme mail handling > requirements, it is probably the best choice, but if your requirements are > fairly standard, you may find it a lot of work for little obvious benefit. > Sometimes in my saner moments, I do wonder why I use Gnus. :-) I can't recall why I decided on Gnus (now, living dangerously, on the CVS version) but it worked the first time I tried. One thing I distinctly remember is, the effort to learn it. Simple things to me(coming from a clicky world) seems so difficult to do. The manual,ahh the manual is a thing of beauty; It was incomprehensible then and parts of it still are. :-) I agree that if standard mail is all you want, then Gnus might not be the one for use but on the other hand, if you think you might want a lot of things that the mail client should automatically do, then Gnus might be the best bet. [...] sivaram --