Re: Emacs and email (again)

[Elena]

On Dec 10, 10:22 am, Michal Sojka <sojk...@fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Stephen Bunn wrote:
> > List,
>
> >   I know this has been discussed to death and everybody has their own
> > opinion, however, some of the information on the list is really old.  I have
> > been using an external mail reader for some time (thunderbird, claws, etc)
> > and would like to integrate this into my emacs setup.  Specifically what I'm
> > looking for is the following:
> > * Support for IMAP/Gmail (including domains attached to gmail)
> > * Fast and Stable
> > * Ability to setup multiple accounts (with the smarts to know if I'm
> > replying from one address to use a specefic SMTP server)
> > * Threaded views
>
> > So I've quickly looked at GNUS, WL, and VM. All of them seem very complex to
> > setup (I don't know lisp all that well).  So my question would be, which
> > package should I be spending my time learning?
>
> Hi,
>
> I do not have any experience with GNUS, WL and VM for the same reason -
> complexity. You may try to look at notmuch (http://notmuchmail.org).
> When you combine it with offlineimap it should support all what you want
> except for using different SMTP servers. Notmuch is clever enough to
> reply with correct From address (if you have more than one) so it might
> be possible to select SMTP server based on From address, but it would
> probably require some scripting.
>
> -Michal

Is notmuch a full mail-client?  To me it seems as if it just allow you
to work on your downloaded mail.  Thanks.