James Freer writes: > Many thanks i really appreciate your reply. I should have put the OS > etc. I'm currently just about to upgrade and just wanted to have a > look at VM before i do a new release install on my new PC. I do wonder > if the emacs email clients are rather too complicated for me. i chose > VM as i thought it was easier to set up than Gnus, WL, MH-E. > > OS xubuntu 10.04, emacs 23.1, VM 8.0.13-1, stunnel4 3:4.29-1 > > I'm looking through those links you gave me.
Unfortunately, any Emacs mail client you use, you are going to be dealing with 3 layers of software: the mail client, Emacs and OS utilities. All of them would also require you to have some profiency in using Emacs. At the moment, however, you have trouble getting stunnel to work. There have been problems with some versions of stunnel, which have been reported on the web. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vm/+bug/321438 http://www.stunnel.org/pipermail/stunnel-users/2011-November/003379.html I don't know the exact status of the current situation. But it should be the job of your Linux distribution to sort out those problems. Cheers, Uday
