"Eric Schulte" <schulte.e...@gmail.com> writes: > At this point it feels somewhat more like voting rather than a > discussion, but I feel compelled to say... > > +1 for gnus!
Hi Simon, I use gnus, and received help from people on the list. Here's a small contribution if you do get going with it: The listing of emails in the summary buffer will look *terrible* with the default settings. But you can make it look really nice using unicode characters for arrows etc. (Example settings below, screenshot at http://www.princeton.edu/~ddavison/gnus.png) (Plus, if you use gnus you don't have to see these ridiculous Kindergarten-style dotted lines and scissors that people put in emails :) ) Dan --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- ;; http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.gnus/browse_thread/thread/a673a74356e7141f (when window-system (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-indent " ") (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-root "") ;; "● ") (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-false-root "") ;; "◯ ") (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-indent "") ;; "◎ ") (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-vertical "│") (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-leaf-with-other "├─► ") (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-leaf "╰─► ")) (setq gnus-summary-line-format (concat "%0{%U%R%z%}" "%3{│%}" "%1{%d%}" "%3{│%}" ;; date " " "%4{%-20,20f%}" ;; name " " "%3{│%}" " " "%1{%B%}" "%s\n")) (setq gnus-summary-display-arrow t) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Gnus has far and away the biggest user base, the best support, and is > the most actively developed (as far as I can tell VM -- which I used for > a couple of years-- is a dead project). Gnus is distributed with Emacs > and all of it's mime and message handling libraries are distributed with > Emacs. > > The config can be daunting if you don't have any help, however there are > many friendly people on this list who I'm sure would be happy to share > their gnus imap config (please feel free to contact me off list), and > once you have the basics working it's really a joy to use. > > Just my personal subjective biased opinion :) -- Eric > > Simon Brown <si...@cliffestones.demon.co.uk> writes: > >> * Scott Brim (s...@employees.org) wrote: >>> Wanderlust seems best at IMAP -- I would go there first, but if you've >>> tolerated >>> mutt's IMAP support this long, maybe you don't need good IMAP support. VM >>> has nice integration with w3m for HTML. IMHO don't start on gnus if you've >>> never used it. Then there's MEW, which is also a good one. They all work >>> with >>> mbox-style mail files. >> I'm trying Wanderlust, but I've started to wonder if it's worth the >> effort. I've moved from mbox to Maildirs but wanderlust doesn't seem >> to be able to recognise the subdirectories. I don't want to be >> changing config everytime I change a list subscription. I also have >> yet to get it to successfully autheniticate with any imap server. >> >> I've got nowhere near trying the org integration. I might try >> installing vm 8.1 but at the moment I've already squandered far too >> much time on this. >> >> Thanks >> >> Simon > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode