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Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar
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Bastien |
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Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar |
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Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:35:21 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Jeff Clough <jeff@chaosphere.com> writes:
> I've looked at Gnus. It uses the "paradigm" of newsgroups for
> everything. I'd rather not have to retrain my brain for something as
> trivial as reading email, but let's just say I'm willing. Is there a
> way to see "I do not have an NNTP server, so please don't bother me
> about it anymore"? It looks like I can set a variable so that gnus will
> ignore the email side of things, but I can't find something similar for
> news.
;; Don't use nntp at all
(setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil))
;; Use nnml to read email
(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "")))
;; Fetch emails from the mail pool
(setq mail-sources '((file :path "/var/mail/guerry"))
> I've also taken a glance at VM and would like to go further, but I see
> no direct evidence that it works with Emacs 22.x. Is anyone using VM
> with a recent Emacs on Windows XP?
Make sure you also have a look at Mew: http://www.mew.org
> Before anyone seriously suggests moving to linux as a solution to my
> problem (which seems dangerously near), let me just clarify something.
> I'm well aware of my options in that regard and am very familiar with
> all things *nixen. Switching from Windows XP to *nix for email is not
> going to happen. Not at all. And I'm not interested in explaining why
> I won't or listening to why I should.
(That sounds a bit angry, no?)
> Installing, configuring and maintaining an IMAP server in order to read
> and search my mail is also not going to happen. An ancient version of
> Eudora on my dad's old Mac LC could let me read my mail, *and* find my
> messages, without having to run such a thing. And it did it for
> thousands of messages without flinching. If a piece of software here in
> the modern world can't handle it, the answer is to not use that
> software.
(That sounds a bit angry too, no?)
> I prefer my mail to always be in bsd mbox files because that's still
> what 90% of the world expects your mail to be in, can be manipulated by
> any code that operates on text files and doesn't break when I move from
> OS to OS. And speed shouldn't be a factor when your mua does proper
> indexing.
You sound a bit fussy about all those things.
While your arguments might be very right to you, you'll certainly get
more helpful answers with a more open-minded attitude.
--
Bastien
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