Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>>  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...

I use it as my shell :-)

>>    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.

Yes, dismiss the rest of the paragraph. ;-)

> 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.

This is even easier A T ( get thread ) or A R ( get referenced messages )

>>    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?

Yep

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Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas (gamaral)
  Free/Libre/Open-Source Software Advocate & KDE Developer
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