From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tassilo Horn Subject: Re: [OT] Emacs for email? Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:59:34 +0100 Message-ID: <877ht5yffd.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <87ws16mhb1.fsf@benfinney.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NFk8C-0002Y7-IR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:00:12 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NFk88-0002Um-6b for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:00:12 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37135 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NFk87-0002Uf-V3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:00:08 -0500 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:35339) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NFk87-0007kg-CI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:00:07 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NFk86-00046S-Mj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:00:06 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NFk85-00008h-Qv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:00:05 +0100 Received: from wlan-239.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.93.239]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:00:05 +0100 Received: from tassilo by wlan-239.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:00:05 +0100 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 Ben Finney writes: Hi Ben, >> 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? > > I use Gnus for NNTP (e.g. for participating in this forum), and am > really liking it. I would dearly love to use Gnus for email too, and > am this →← close, but I have an interactive external program > generating my message signatures and I can't figure out how to get it > working in Emacs quite as easily as it does in Mutt. This should be very easy. Have a look at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusMnemonics where the fortune program is used as signature program. Bye, Tassilo