* Len Budney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Robin S. Socha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> * Len Budney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000825 20:30]:
>> > The problems with that are (1) I *want* a command-line interface...
>> > (2) I'd like to see the job done right, once...
>>
>> I don't see the problem, really. Use Gnus http://www.gnus.org/ and
>> you're there.
> "There" meaning that I'd have an email CLI using maildirs as folders?
> I was unaware that GNUS was a CLI; I thought it ran inside Emacs.
Go "xemacs -nw -f gnus" in a shell. Happy reading.
>> Supports maildir...(tentatively reaching beta status) as a native
>> select method.
> I can't find anything about this at the GNUS site. Can you give me a
> more specific pointer?
,----
| ; nnmaildir.el: maildir backend for Gnus
| [...]
| ; an nnmaildir select method looks like this:
| ; '(nnmaildir "whatever" (nnmaildir-groups (("group.name" "/path/to/maildir")
| ; ("other.group" "/path/to/other"))))
`----
Alternately, you could go:
,----
| (setq mail-sources
| '((maildir :path "/home/robin/Maildir/"
| :subdirs ("cur" "new"))))
`----
> If GNUS supports maildir as a folder, then that makes three such
> mailers (mutt and Pine being the other two).
Pine is not an MUA. Pine is an abomination.
> Note, though, that I'm only interested in mailers which don't break
> concurrency. I'm still evaluating the choices, but they do things
> which make me nervous, like using collision-prone file names.
nnmaildir.el does what you want. However, it's still beta, so you've
been warned.
>> It also speaks IMAP, MIME and basically everything else one needs...
> Although I question the wisdom of mailreaders getting into the MTA/MDA
> business.
Heh, it's XEmacs... as in /vmxemacs :-) ShengHuo Zhu has written
mailwatch.el to make time.el work with maildir (the yellow button
thingy in the grey bar thingy).
--
Robin S. Socha <http://socha.net/Gnus/>
