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Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar


From: Francis Moreau
Subject: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:40:12 -0700 (PDT)
User-agent: G2/1.0

On Oct 12, 2:56 pm, Richard Riley <rileyrg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeff Clough <j...@chaosphere.com> writes:
> > From: Francis Moreau <francis.m...@gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:06:16 -0700 (PDT)
>
> >> On Sep 9, 4:55 am, Bastien <bastiengue...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Don't get me wrong, I use GNUS (maybe because I spent so much time in
> >> it, I don't want to admit I was wrong ;) but you must be ready to
> >> spent some time to configure it and to adopt it and I'm wondering if
> >> it really worth the trouble specially if the OP is not interested in
> >> news group...
>
> > It wasn't worth it.  I use Mew for mail and it works just fine.  Well,
> > as good as Emacs works under Windows at all.
>
> I think it is worth it because of the benefits of it being cradled by
> mother Emacs : having all my normal text tools for translation,
> spelling, searching etc in my gnus buffers is just too cool. It all
> works together too well. I do remember being frustrated earlier because
> of the incomprehensible manual and the raft of options (and being newish
> to emacs). But it was worth it.

But you probably get the same benefits with Mew...


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