Re: Emacs for mail: VM - WL - GNUS

[Elena]

On Dec 3, 10:31 pm, Xavier Maillard <xav...@maillard.im> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [ sending it again since I can't see it ]
>
>
>
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:29:25 +0100, Michal Sojka <sojk...@fel.cvut.cz> wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, James Freer wrote:
> > > I'm just starting to use emacs for editing and thought about using it
> > > for email as well. I'm a moderator for several groups and have found
> > > Thunderbird a bit slow. I'm hoping that a text email may be quicker. I
> > > tried Cone and Mutt a while ago. I need to use imap and was wondering
> > > if i'd be better off with emacs addons.
>
> > > What are folk using WL or VM? I've read the gnus pdf and i think i'd
> > > be better off with one of those two.
>
> > > As for installing:
> > > WL seems ok to follow
> > >http://box.matto.nl/emacsgmail.html
>
> > > VM i find a little heavy! for my knowledge - is there another site
> > > which is easier to follow for a newbie
> > >http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/user-manual/vm_2.html#SEC5
> > >http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ViewMailAndImap
>
> > You may also tryhttp://notmuchmail.org/. It is a search-based email
> > client with Emacs UI. It is relatively young, but already very usable.
> > If you need IMAP, you will probably want to combine it with offlineimap
> > (https://github.com/jgoerzen/offlineimap/wiki).
>
> +1 for notmuchmail which is just awesome.
>
> Why ? No time wasted in tweaking the system -i.e. your setup -, it has
> an awesome GNU Emacs cli, bindings if you need to script something in
> python, haskell, ... Plus it is extra fast, after all it is just a
> mailstore !
>
> In the past, I spent many hours configuring gnus/wl/your MUA here/ to
> make it works like I wanted. In the end it was just a (bad) fork of the
> original and I was not reading my e-mails (my .gnus file was 23k
> lines...) ;)
>
> rmail has been my best companion for years: basic features, simple to
> setup (m-x rmail), simple to use. Just worked like a charm no useless
> things (but no MIME support and no IMAP). Sadly I changed from POP to
> IMAP and thus just had to give up my old good and lovely friend, sadly
> :( Without this switch, I would have probably sticked with it.
>
> I love simplicity and notmuchmail permits that :)
>
> /Xavier

Hello Xavier,

could you please describe your setup for reading mail with
NotMuchMail?  I don't understand: I was expecting a program to read
mail, but it doesn't.  The webpage says it's only an indexer.  So, how
can we compare it to RMail?  Does it works with an IMAP mailbox?

Thanks.