Re: Emacs news/mail client (was: How to get my mail back from RMAIL)

[djcb]

On Tue, 06 Jan 2009, Teemu Likonen wrote:

> John Velman (2009-01-06 17:46 +0000) wrote:
> 
> > But I still need some advice on using emacs for Mail and News -- where
> > is the best place to look for it?

Someone suggested gnus; it's power can be scary though... Another option
is to use a console mailer like 'mutt' and a console news reader like
'slrn' inside emacs.

In your ~/.muttrc, you can add something like:
  set editor="emacsclient %s +8 -a emacs"

In your ~/.slrnrc, you could add something like:
  set editor_command "emacsclient '%s' +%d -a emacs"

(Obviously, slrn and mutt need some more setup; the information can be
found on their websites)

In your .emacs, you can add something like:

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist 
             '("\\.*mutt-*\\|.article\\|\\.followup" 
                . mail-mode)) 

And something like this to start emacs-server:
    (server-start)

Now, inside emacs you can start mutt or slrn in a terminal; you can make
shortcuts for that, see:
http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2008/12/running-console-programs-inside-emacs.html

Good luck!

Best wishes,
Dirk.   

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