Re: [VM] Emacs for email: Rmail v VM v Gnus

[James Freer]

On 14 August 2012 19:25, Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> James Freer <jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> As VM isn't part of gnu-emacs why has Rmail not been developed. There
>> was a discussion thread a while back on how emacs could be improved.
>> Emacs is "complete working environment" but for email for IMAP and
>> virtual folders one has to turn to another app. Xemacs i believe has
>> VM installed with it. Why not use Xemacs? well i found it fairly poor
>> compared with gnu-emacs [well it doesn't seem to have been compiled
>> properly for use on ubuntu somehow.]
>
> Rmail is nice and simple; adding major new features to it would amount
> to writing another new mail reader, which would be silly. Gnu Emacs
> already ships with several ways to handle IMAP, at least one of which
> (Gnus) also does virtual folders in several ways. And while VM may not
> be included with Gnu Emacs, it is available as a system package on many
> OS distributions (including Ubuntu) the same way that Emacs is. So there
> are plenty of options.

Thing is i'd like to stay 'simple' but Rmail could at least be
developed to handletake IMAP.
Gnus is 'geek' application - "Lepers" like me struggle to get it setup.

james