Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS

[Sean McAfee]

Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:
> On Nov 22, 6:11 pm, Eric S Fraga <ucec...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Wanderlust is nice but I moved back
>> to gnus because the documentation is just so much more thorough
>> (although it does take reading a few times due to the volume of
>> capabilities).

> Be more social: just ask.
>
> Also consider Mew: http://www.mew.org/en/

I gave Mew a good honest try, but when I sociably asked for help with
various more-or-less serious issues in this group, none was forthcoming,
so I crawled on back to Gnus.

I've since come to be pretty happy with it for mail; I'd already been
using it for a year or two to read news.  And I only recently stumbled
across what's become Gnus's killer feature for me: automatic hiding of
excessive article quoting:

(setq gnus-treat-hide-citation t 
      gnus-cited-lines-visible '(0 . 5))

These two little lines make reading Usenet vastly more enjoyable, since
the knowledge of how to trim one's followups has apparently become a
lost art.