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

[Richard Riley]

James Freer <jessejazza@gmail.com> writes:

> 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
>

It has a very active user community and most setup issues are quickly
solved. I particularly like recent additions such as better gpg
integration for authinfo files so passwords are not plaintext and the
addition of multiple smtp servers for domains (e.g when you have two
gmail accounts). 


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