Re: Handling mail

[Uday Reddy]

On 7/15/2011 7:58 PM, Johan Vromans wrote:

> The problems that I actually experience during daily use is:
>
> - No proper display if Unicode characters (Emacs and Gnus do this right,
>    VM doesn't).
>
> - Mysterious handling of message attachments (some are displayed inline,
>    some are displatched to external 'viewers', but most are offered to be
>    saved to disk). This may be a problem external to Emacs.

What version of VM are you using?

The handling of message attachments is handled by your option settings, 
such as vm-mime-internal-content-types and 
vm-mime-external-content-types-alist etc.  What are your settings for 
these variables?  Do you have emacs-w3m installed for handling html?

> Moreover, VM provides some nifty features that I haven't yet found out
> how to do with Gnus:
>
> - Automatically infer the name of the file to save a message into,
>    depending on the sender name (and using the mail-folder property in
>    the BBDB, if any).
>
> - In the summary, display the name of the recipient if the sender is me
>    ('me' being a list of mail addresses). This is particularly handy
>    since I save BCC's of outgoing messages in my primary mailbox.
>
> - Automatically (or on demand) change my from, reply-to, selected
>    headers and signature depending on which of my email addresses the
>    message was sent to.

Absolutely.  I haven't tried the other mail clients.  So I can't speak 
for them.  But VM does have myriads of little features that make life 
convenient.

Cheers,
Uday