Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS

[harven]

Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:

> On Nov 23, 4:18 pm, Jason Earl <je...@notengoamigos.org> wrote:
>> Here is a basic setup that will connect gnus to an IMAP server on port
>> 993 via ssl.  In short, if all you need is the sort of basic setup that
>> you get from other mail clients this will suit you just fine.
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>>       '((nnimap "mail"
>>                 (nnimap-address "your.mail.server")
>>                 (nnimap-server-port 993)
>>                 (nnimap-stream ssl)
>>                 (nnimap-authenticator login))))
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Thank you very much, Jason.  However, my server is a POP one,
> otherwise I guess Gnus would not have been dumb enough to start
> downloading my mails and deleting them assuming I knew some bizantine
> settings to avoid that beforehand.  Thunderbird may be big and slow,
> but at least it does not make such assumptions.
>
> For a text-based mail-client, I'm looking into Alpine now.

Gnus does a pretty good job at emulating Alpine FWIW.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusAndPine