From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell Adams Subject: Re: [OT] Emacs for email? Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:56:08 -0600 Message-ID: <20091202025608.GH26697@thinkpad.adamsinfoserv.com> References: <87d42yazpc.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NFfOA-0004CT-2q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:56:22 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NFfO9-0004C7-AX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:56:21 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41203 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NFfO9-0004Bv-5f for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:56:21 -0500 Received: from squirtle.drak.net ([72.52.144.201]:43855) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NFfO9-0006fE-1S for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:56:21 -0500 Received: from 206.180.154.148.adsl.hal-pc.org ([206.180.154.148] helo=localhost) by squirtle.drak.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NFfNp-0000Qu-Lh for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:56:02 -0600 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87d42yazpc.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 09:15:27PM -0500, Dan Davison wrote: > Keith Lancaster writes: > > > I apologize for the WAY off topic question, but since you folk are > > emacs experts....do you use emacs for email, and if so, what do you > > use? Org-mode caused me to switch to emacs after programming for 30 > > years in other editors, and so like many emacs converts, I'm not > > wanting to exit the app :-). > > Also gnus. It's very nice once it's working and it's fine to get it set > up if you're good at that sort of thing or have a few spare weeks. The > manual is extremely comprehensive and pretty funny but basically > horrifying. The summary buffer containing news/emails will look awful to > start off with but it is possible to make it look nice (e.g. the > wikipedia screenshot) by configuring gnus-summary-line-format and (if > not in a terminal) by using non-ascii arrow characters to represent > threads e.g. > > (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-vertical "???") > (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-leaf-with-other "????????? ") > (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-leaf "????????? ")) > > Dan I'm suppose I'm still an exception here. I'm using Mutt, though I edit outbound messages in emacs. My email toolchain goes like this: - fetchmail downloads from several different servers - procmail sorts email into the proper inbox or other folder - I use maildir for backend storage, I gave up on mbox a long time ago - Mutt reads the email in all the various folders - Mutt automatically changes my email address depending on the recipient or folder according to a series of "roles" - Mutt spawns an emacsclient in order to edit an outgoing message - msmtp uses the from header to determine which mail server to use for outbound SMTP Gnus, MH, Wanderlust, etc would only replace the Mutt portion, which is really only reading the email and the "roles" support. As a sidenote I have dovecot setup so that my maildir folders are accessible to Thunderbird in Windows should I choose to access it inside VMWare. I'm open to using Emacs constantly, so whats the big draw for these other mail modes? ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Adams RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3