[Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-04-09 Thread Uday S Reddy
Robert Goldman wrote: Is this really true? In my days of using VM --- I eventually gave it up for Thunderbird --- VM never had true IMAP support that could interact with folders on the server. All it did was use the IMAP protocol to populate its local mail directory. This isn't really full

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-04-01 Thread peter . frings
On 31 Mar 2010, at 21:09, Gary wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:53:17PM +0100, Leo wrote: although many people have been saying it is intimidating, it is not. Oh yes it is :) I kind of agree. This brings up another question, related to the recent discussion about making a 'ready to

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-04-01 Thread Eric Schulte
Hi Peter, peter.fri...@agfa.com writes: So, wouldn't it be good if org could send those nicely formatted emails using their mail clients? 'M-x org-send-email' and woosh, there it goes! I agree this would be nice, however my initial reaction is that this will be the sort of project which

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-04-01 Thread Giovanni Ridolfi
Eric Schulte schulte.e...@gmail.com writes: peter.fri...@agfa.com writes: Org prepares the body, then tells the mail app to prepare an mail with it. [...] On Windows or *nix I don't know, but I can only assume similar functionality exists. My uneducated guess is that it will [...] near

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-04-01 Thread Henri-Paul Indiogine
Giovanni Ridolfi giovanni.rido...@yahoo.it writes: Eric Schulte schulte.e...@gmail.com writes: peter.fri...@agfa.com writes: Org prepares the body, then tells the mail app to prepare an mail with it. [...] On Windows or *nix I don't know, but I can only assume similar functionality exists.

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-04-01 Thread Daniel Goldin
I too am a non-programmer-type who loves emacs/org-mode. I second this approach. I don't think it will ever be possible -- nor desirable -- to create a pure out-of-the-box setup as in window's programs -- but this approach would work well for those of us able to tinker and learn a little but not

[Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-31 Thread Robert Goldman
Manuel Hermenegildo herme at fi.upm.es writes: I have to say in VM's defense that it is working very well for me (and has supported IMAP for a very long time) Is this really true? In my days of using VM --- I eventually gave it up for Thunderbird --- VM never had true IMAP support that

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-31 Thread Nick Dokos
Robert Goldman rpgold...@sift.info wrote: Manuel Hermenegildo herme at fi.upm.es writes: I have to say in VM's defense that it is working very well for me (and has supported IMAP for a very long time) Is this really true? In my days of using VM --- I eventually gave it up for

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-31 Thread Nick Dokos
Robert Goldman rpgold...@sift.info wrote: Thanks for the news. I'm looking forward to having a new look at VM, if it works well with IMAP now. Unfortunately, at least the documentation on the emacs wiki for how to use IMAP is badly ambiguous. There's a paragraph on the distinction

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-31 Thread Gary
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:53:17PM +0100, Leo wrote: although many people have been saying it is intimidating, it is not. Oh yes it is :) I fondly[1] remember spending *ages* trying to find out how to set the citation line (you don't, you setq message-citation-line-function

[Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Scott Brim
Simon Brown simon at cliffestones.demon.co.uk writes: Hi all, I currently use mutt as my email client but I'm looking for greater emacs integration and better html support. Org mode supports at least gnus, vm and wanderlust. Can anybody advise on the relative pros and cons? My main

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Simon Brown
* Scott Brim (s...@employees.org) wrote: Wanderlust seems best at IMAP -- I would go there first, but if you've tolerated mutt's IMAP support this long, maybe you don't need good IMAP support. VM has nice integration with w3m for HTML. IMHO don't start on gnus if you've never used it.

[Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Richard Riley
Simon Brown si...@cliffestones.demon.co.uk writes: * Richard Riley (rileyrg...@gmail.com) wrote: This is pretty fanboi of me but its really simple : use Gnus. It can do imap fine (you can always move to using a local dovecot server and use offlineimap to sync if performance is a problem).

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Eric Schulte
At this point it feels somewhat more like voting rather than a discussion, but I feel compelled to say... +1 for gnus! Gnus has far and away the biggest user base, the best support, and is the most actively developed (as far as I can tell VM -- which I used for a couple of years-- is a dead

[Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Richard Riley
Simon Brown si...@cliffestones.demon.co.uk writes: * Scott Brim (s...@employees.org) wrote: Wanderlust seems best at IMAP -- I would go there first, but if you've tolerated mutt's IMAP support this long, maybe you don't need good IMAP support. VM has nice integration with w3m for HTML.

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Manuel Hermenegildo
I have to say in VM's defense that it is working very well for me (and has supported IMAP for a very long time) and there are indeed people working actively it. The old 7.19 version has indeed been frozen for a long time, but I am using the latest versions out of the repo on Launchpad and

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Dan Davison
Eric Schulte schulte.e...@gmail.com writes: At this point it feels somewhat more like voting rather than a discussion, but I feel compelled to say... +1 for gnus! Hi Simon, I use gnus, and received help from people on the list. Here's a small contribution if you do get going with it: The

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Henri-Paul Indiogine
Dan Davison davi...@stats.ox.ac.uk writes: http://www.princeton.edu/~ddavison/gnus.png) Thanks for the .gnus code. Actually, I do not use .gnus and place all in .emacs but I do not think that matters. I run Ubuntu Karmic + Gnu Emacs 23. Both updated Anyway, now my summary buffer looks very

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Dan Davison
Henri-Paul Indiogine hindiog...@gmail.com writes: Dan Davison davi...@stats.ox.ac.uk writes: http://www.princeton.edu/~ddavison/gnus.png) Thanks for the .gnus code. Actually, I do not use .gnus and place all in .emacs but I do not think that matters. I run Ubuntu Karmic + Gnu Emacs 23.

[Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Leo
On 2010-03-30 18:34 +0100, Manuel Hermenegildo wrote: I have to say in VM's defense that it is working very well for me (and has supported IMAP for a very long time) and there are indeed people working actively it. The old 7.19 version has indeed been frozen for a long time, but I am using the

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Geralt
Hi, wow, that looks really great, thanks :-)! Do you know by chance if it's possible to link sent mails in threads? I'm using Gmail and all my sent mail is in a folder called INBOX and it would be really great if I could see my own messages in the threads. Geralt.

[Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-29 Thread Richard Riley
Simon Brown si...@cliffestones.demon.co.uk writes: Hi all, I currently use mutt as my email client but I'm looking for greater emacs integration and better html support. Org mode supports at least gnus, vm and wanderlust. Can anybody advise on the relative pros and cons? My main restriction

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-29 Thread Simon Brown
* Richard Riley (rileyrg...@gmail.com) wrote: This is pretty fanboi of me but its really simple : use Gnus. It can do imap fine (you can always move to using a local dovecot server and use offlineimap to sync if performance is a problem). I've had a quick look at the gnus manual and it seems to

[Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-29 Thread Ɓukasz Stelmach
Simon Brown si...@cliffestones.demon.co.uk writes: * Richard Riley (rileyrg...@gmail.com) wrote: This is pretty fanboi of me but its really simple : use Gnus. It can do imap fine (you can always move to using a local dovecot server and use offlineimap to sync if performance is a problem).