[h-e-w] Re: Gnus, anyone?

[Paul Kinnucan]

Jason Rumney writes:
 > Paul Kinnucan <address@hidden> writes:
 > 
 > > I'm a bit further down this path than you. I tried the gnus for news
 > > and email route and hated it almost instantly.
 > 
 > Almost instantly is not sufficiently long to accustom yourself to
 > Gnus :-)
 >

I've been using Gnus off-and-on for more than 10 years. I was 
referring to its mail function, which does not support two features
that I need, folders and leave-on-server.
 
 > > There are a few tricks to using vm on Windows, including compiling
 > > the base64 encoder/decoder program that comes with the vm
 > > distribution.
 > 
 > What is so wrong with the built in base64 support that VM needs to
 > reinvent it?
 > 

The qp and base64 encoder/decoder programs that come with vm are
written in c as opposed to Lisp. The compiled executables run much
faster than the Lisp.

- Paul