Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> writes: > For me it is the other way around. I want to couple with Emacs more > closely, but Gnus prevents me from doing so. A few gripes follow.
> 1. Emacs is single threaded, so a network interruption while reading my > email over IMAP means my emacs server is stuck! It would be so appealing if Emacs was really using threading for its windows. Tom Tromey seems to be making a very courageous attempt at it, but is still hitting various problems and walls. I wonder if he will succeed at the end. In my case, Emacs is indeed stuck for a few seconds, not enough to bother me significantly. I read that some people combine fetchmail, procmail and other tools so Emacs does not IMAP itself; I just did not want to dive into all the locking and synchronization issues implied by such tools. > 2. Oh that's easy to solve, use maildirs (sync with OfflineIMAP). That > does not work well because Gnus uses its own flags (an example where > Gnus actually breaks standards)! There are some hacks around that > out in the wild, so let's let it slide. > 3. Gnus stores some meta information/cache for maildirs in a .nnmaildir > folder *inside* the maildir directory tree! > maildir > ├── .nnmaildir > ├── cur > ├── new > └── tmp > I do not know how, but this supposed meta information or cache takes > about 2/3 of disk space as the original maildir! Obviously that is a > problem for large mailboxes. I never really studies IMAP, and use it rather naively, so I take your word about Gnus not being straight about it. Sorry to hear that. I've not been bitten yet, or maybe I'm just too naive to know. However, I remember that I often had to read Gnus structures in external, non-Emacs programs, and it is indeed a challenge each time. I merely try to not do that anymore! :-) > I use mutt-kz (mutt with notmuch integration) and emacsclient. With > support for linking using org-notmuch, I couldn't be happier. Thanks for the hints, which I save, could be useful one day, who knows! :-) When I left Emacs for other lands, years ago, I decided for Mutt and used it for many years (before switching to others, and finally Thunderbird). With many stunts (a bit too much of them should I say), I could get Mutt to do about anything I wanted (but never had such success with Thunderbird). Back to Gnus, and configuring it as little as I can, I have the impression of recovering some simplicity on the user side. Moreover, Org nicely plays with Gnus (or almost). François
