Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Using gnus somewhat painful?

[Alex Kavanagh]

At Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:19:32 -0800,
Gregory Novak wrote:
> 
> Some time ago I started reading mail in Emacs because of PlannerMode
> (so that I could have links to messages and such).  I started with VM,
> which was fine but is starting to get moldy.  I switched to Gnus and
> have been having a somewhat difficult time.  People on the Gnus
> mailing list seem somewhat prickly so I'm posting here to see if
> anyone has useful experience.
> 
> Getting things working (setting up the servers and such) wasn't a
> problem and I'm using the nnimap backend.  Most of the trouble seems
> to stem from that fact.  A few of the problems:
> 
> - Gnus doesn't seem good about either maintaining or restarting the
>   connection to the IMAP server.  Many times I have to quit Gnus and
>   restart.  Sometimes this seems to cause emacs to hang forever and I
>   have to kill it.

I've not used Gnus but I do use Wanderlust and it has excellent IMAP
support including a very good offline mode.  Configuration can be a
bit tricky, but it really does have one of the best offline IMAP
handling I've come across.

Cheers
Alex.