On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:11:02 +0000 Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> The short answer is to use *Emacs* for your email, How do you (as in all users using Emacs as their email client) deal with unreliable networks? When I used to use tramp over a particularly slow/unreliable network day before, I found every time tramp got stuck emacs would hang too until tramp could recover. I thought it was because emacs is still not multi-threaded (am I correct?), so a stuck process would bring make the entire session unresponsive. This was more annoying when I was running `emacs --daemon'. So as a conpromise, I resorted to using plugins (wherever I could) to use emacs as my alternate editor. So far this has worked very well in Firefox (It's all text), Thunderbird (Alternate Editor) and claws-mail (native support). Is there any resolution to these issues? If so, I would really love to try an Emacs based email client. Of course as always if my understanding is incorrect please feel free to correct me. :) -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.