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Re: Reading/Managing mail with emacs
From: |
Sivaram Neelakantan |
Subject: |
Re: Reading/Managing mail with emacs |
Date: |
Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:34:09 +0530 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (windows-nt) |
Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
[...]
>
> The 'heavy weight' is Gnus. I've looked at it, but to be honest, it has a
> very very steep learning curve and will take a fair bit to configure. I use
> Gnus for reading newsgroups and it is excellent at that. It is probably OK
> for mail and lots of people love it, but I personally never felt
> comfortable with it and at times, it took a lot of work to find out how to
> do something which is normally fairly trivial. I also never got
> comfortable with the mail like newsgroups approach it uses. However, those
> who have put in the time and stuck with it will swear by it and are likely
> to sacrifice key family members rather than give it up. I don't know if
> this is because it is truely wonderful or if they feel they need to invest
> in it totally in order to justify the effort it takes to get it working
> just how you want. If you have unusual and extreme mail handling
> requirements, it is probably the best choice, but if your requirements are
> fairly standard, you may find it a lot of work for little obvious benefit.
>
Sometimes in my saner moments, I do wonder why I use Gnus. :-)
I can't recall why I decided on Gnus (now, living dangerously, on the
CVS version) but it worked the first time I tried. One thing I
distinctly remember is, the effort to learn it. Simple things to
me(coming from a clicky world) seems so difficult to do. The
manual,ahh the manual is a thing of beauty; It was incomprehensible
then and parts of it still are. :-)
I agree that if standard mail is all you want, then Gnus might not be
the one for use but on the other hand, if you think you might want a
lot of things that the mail client should automatically do, then Gnus
might be the best bet.
[...]
sivaram
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Re: Reading/Managing mail with emacs, Sven Bretfeld, 2007/10/08
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Re: Reading/Managing mail with emacs, Floyd L. Davidson, 2007/10/06
Re: Reading/Managing mail with emacs, Tim X, 2007/10/07
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