Re: How to set up Emacs as a mail client (with mail saved/filed on an IMAP server)

[James Freer]

On 1/26/14, N. Jackson <nljlistbox2@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
>> Hi N,
>
> Hi Loris, thank you for your response.
>
>> http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_398.html#SEC451
>
> I had missed that there is a FAQ buried in the appendices of the Gnus
> Info manual! It contains some quite useful tips that led me directly or
> indirectly to most of the solutions to my puzzle. :)
>
>> Gnus does work with IMAP.  Look here:
>>
>> http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_208.html
>
> Yes. I had spent quite a bit of time in this part of the manual
> previously. I had the IMAP part set up "correctly". What I was missing
> (until the last couple of days) was the other parts of the puzzle:
> Viewing my inbox and other mail folders / filing read mail / navigating
> to filed mail folders.
>
> I now have methods for those mostly sorted out.
>
> The only real inconvenience remaining is that when I configure variables
> for Gnus the values are global, and I don't see yet how to restrict
> their scope to a particular server or group or retrieval method.
>
>> I haven't used RMAIL for years, but look here:
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Remote-Mailboxes.html#Remote-Mailboxes
>
> It doesn't seem that RMAIL does what I want at all, and now that I have
> things almost working in Gnus, I guess I won't be investigating this
> avenue further at this point.
>
>>> 4. Mutt with Emacs as external editor
>>
>> This is probably possible.  However, it strikes me as a little bizarre
>> since there are solutions within Emacs
>
> Indeed. It doesn't look like I will need to resort to this. Gnus it
> is. :)
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Loris

Well done because I found Gnus difficult to set up... and gave up.
Rather too involved for me although I did set up Mutt but didn't find
it to my liking. I used Alpine which reads the server well and works
fine with emacs... for me and my more limited abilites.

james