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[h-e-w] Using Emacs for email
From: |
Wojciech Komornicki |
Subject: |
[h-e-w] Using Emacs for email |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Nov 2001 16:37:56 -0600 |
>>>>> "Alec" == Alec Clews <address@hidden> writes:
Alec> G'Day,
Alec> I have some questions relating to using email and emacs. I am
Alec> thinking of moving to emacs as my sole MUA, but I have some
Alec> questions first.
Alec> Background: I have two email accounts. Our office system uses MS
Alec> Exchange which I access using POP3 and SMTP, I also have an
Alec> account with Yahoo that also uses POP3 and SMTP. I get sent lots
Alec> of MS Office attachments with my mail and of course HTML
Alec> email. I also dual boot, W2K and Linux, buat all these questions
Alec> relate to W2K. I have cygwin installed
I use emacs for my mail both under W2K and on the UNIX machines where I
have accounts. One of the questions that you do not ask is which mail
agent you want to use from within emacs. The three that I am familiar
with are GNUS, VM, and RMAIL. I use VM and am not equipped to say
anything regarding the other two packages
Alec> My questions are these:
Alec> 0) Which documents are helpful to read about configuring emacs email
Documentation on the particular mail package is helpful as well as the
FAQ on ntemacs
Alec> 1) Should I use fetchmail to get my POP3 email rather than emacs?
If you use VM, VM will fetch the mail from either a POP server or an
IMAPD server.
Alec> 2) Can I sort my email into a different folder depending on the server
Alec> it came from? (may depend on answer to 1 guess)
In VM you can set up an alist according to which your mail will be saved
in different volders.
Alec> 3) Can I select which SMTP server I want to use when I send email? (and
Alec> also chose my .sig file)
The variables smtpmail-default-smtp-server and smtpmail-smtp-server
control which smtp server to use. All you need to do is set these
variables to point to the right server.
I have modified some of the lisp files to specify which signature file
to use. I only have two (one for local mail and one for mail going
outside of my university) and so the modifications where quite simple.
Alec> 4) Does anyone have any updates to the instructions in the NT Emacs FAQ?
Alec> They did not work when I tried them (if no one has any extra information
Alec> handy I will post more details of my problems and ask for help).
If you would find it helpful, I can send you that part of my .emacs file
which pertains to mail.
--
Wojciech Komornicki Dept of Mathematics
address@hidden Hamline University
http://www.hamline.edu/~wnk/ St Paul, MN 55104
USA
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