At Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:19:32 -0800, Gregory Novak wrote: > > Some time ago I started reading mail in Emacs because of PlannerMode > (so that I could have links to messages and such). I started with VM, > which was fine but is starting to get moldy. I switched to Gnus and > have been having a somewhat difficult time. People on the Gnus > mailing list seem somewhat prickly so I'm posting here to see if > anyone has useful experience. > > Getting things working (setting up the servers and such) wasn't a > problem and I'm using the nnimap backend. Most of the trouble seems > to stem from that fact. A few of the problems: > > - Gnus doesn't seem good about either maintaining or restarting the > connection to the IMAP server. Many times I have to quit Gnus and > restart. Sometimes this seems to cause emacs to hang forever and I > have to kill it.
I've not used Gnus but I do use Wanderlust and it has excellent IMAP support including a very good offline mode. Configuration can be a bit tricky, but it really does have one of the best offline IMAP handling I've come across. Cheers Alex. _______________________________________________ emacs-wiki-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-wiki-discuss
