On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Uday Reddy <[email protected]> wrote: > chad writes: > >> If you want to use emacs and keep your mail on the server, you >> probably want to look into Wanderlust. Gnus can do it also [...] >> >> If you don't mind moving to keep your email locally, your options >> expand quite a bit. In addition to Gnus, you can try rmail, mh-e, and >> VM. > > I would like to correct the impression that VM is a local folder mail > client. Starting with version 8.1.0 (released in March 2010), VM has had > full support for IMAP. Quoting from the release notes for 8.1.0: > > MAJOR NEW FEATURES: > > * Support for reading and replying to messages in HTML. > > * Full support for IMAP servers. (See "IMPROVEMENTS for > imap-folders".) > > I should also add that VM is very similar to Rmail in its basic structure, > but extends Rmail with full support for MIME and POP/IMAP servers. It also > has a very powerful virtual folder facility. (VM was in fact the inventor > of the "virtual folder" concept). Virtual folders are extremely useful when > you have to deal with large quantities of email, with multiple mail folders > etc. > > You can find the public releases of VM here: > > http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/viewmail/ > > and the development versions here: > > http://launchpad.net/vm > > Cheers, > Uday
As VM isn't part of gnu-emacs why has Rmail not been developed. There was a discussion thread a while back on how emacs could be improved. Emacs is "complete working environment" but for email for IMAP and virtual folders one has to turn to another app. Xemacs i believe has VM installed with it. Why not use Xemacs? well i found it fairly poor compared with gnu-emacs [well it doesn't seem to have been compiled properly for use on ubuntu somehow.] james
