From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reading/Managing mail with emacs Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:56:28 +0200 Organization: T-Online Message-ID: References: <878x6gvbdi.fld@apaflo.com> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191674444 19724 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2007 12:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 12:40:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 06 14:40:40 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 1Ie8xM-0003pI-Bk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:40:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ie8xH-0007OQ-IB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:40:27 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1191671959 03 28257 XNil1IErpRD87EU 071006 11:59:19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: boN-W+ZvgeDbuMYbw5gcIUTtrglFMljI-FflIHN4fUPVGTn8XJaz0X X-Face: :6KQZ[nyoS_edmB.%gw-=)BYth^|2+Y+^cu%I$FSx!&>-'om>3H7A|M&n(V7fIo3P.; yo.b yq4$p; ZaBtkv)\}biaiBQe"mD}iib1AA@99-fZ7i*bLhNRVC&0Wkxg9)SH?oWc@{ Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:S7sMJnW7rSH+FVb62T3PzrVIJUk= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152646 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:48154 Archived-At: On Sat, Oct 06 2007, Floyd L. Davidson wrote: > GNUS is the heavy weight champ. s/GNUS/Gnus/, see (info "(gnus)History"). > The one "problem" with running gnus is that it necessarily creates a > large number of buffers, customizes menus, etc etc; and basically > takes over Emacs. Huh? Changes menus, tool bars, ... only happens in Gnus buffers unless there is some bug. > If you run Emacs as an edit server (highly recommended), it works > much better to invoke an Emacs process separately from that server > to run gnus for Usenet and email. I guess that is what many Gnus users do, because some Gnus operations (network, scoring, ...) might take quite some time. > Look for example configurations on the net, and check > out gnu.emacs.gnus. Configuration examples on the net often tend to be outdated. Don't use them unless you know what they are doing by reading the *current* Gnus documentation, i.e. use ` v', ` f', and consult the manual (info "(gnus)Top"). Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/