begin quoting Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas as of Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 07:41:06PM -0800: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Ah, a gnus user! I've been looking for one. :) Can you tell me how gnus > > compares with mutt? I had been using mutt for years then switched to > > thunderbird for a couple years and got used to it but recently I realize > > how much it is slowing me down having to mouse around so much. I have been > > learning emacs lately and trying to use it to do my coding. Might be nice > > to use the same framework for email. > > Well, I have used Mutt to little to actually tell you anything of > value, the only difference I noticed was that Mutt acts more like a Mail > Client and Gnus acts more like a News Reader that can also do mail on
There are lots of news readers... tin I use, but there's rn, slrn, nn, etc.... > the side. IMAP seems to work best with the way Gnus works. I can get my > Usenet News Groups from SuperNews, Mailing lists from Gmane NNTP > Gateway and my Mail Messages through IMAP all inside one application ;-) Emacs is a decent OS, they say... > The only hurdle you might need to get past will be to forget how a > standard mail client works. With Gnus you will get a thread like display > of all your messages, Um.... that's what all of the mail clients that I've used do, except "mail". > when you get a new message, only that is displayed > and with a simple command you can fetch part or all the thread that > message is part of. When an emacs user says "simple command", I cringe. Of course, I spent years working with a guy who had used emacs so much, a "simple command" meant "only uses two modifier keys, and only one at a time". Granted, he didn't bitch when he had to use a MSOS box, so long as it had emacs installed: he's just fullscreen emacs and be happy. > It also allows you to `split` so you can split off your work, spam and > personal mails into groups of their own. So it does a little of what procmail does as well, then? -- If only I could embed vim 6 into emacs.... Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
