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Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar


From: Andreas Politz
Subject: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:12:36 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)

Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:

> On Oct 12, 2:56 pm, Richard Riley <rileyrg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Jeff Clough <j...@chaosphere.com> writes:
>> > From: Francis Moreau <francis.m...@gmail.com>
>> > Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:06:16 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>> >> On Sep 9, 4:55 am, Bastien <bastiengue...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> Don't get me wrong, I use GNUS (maybe because I spent so much time in
>> >> it, I don't want to admit I was wrong ;) but you must be ready to
>> >> spent some time to configure it and to adopt it and I'm wondering if
>> >> it really worth the trouble specially if the OP is not interested in
>> >> news group...
>>
>> > It wasn't worth it.  I use Mew for mail and it works just fine.  Well,
>> > as good as Emacs works under Windows at all.
>>
>> I think it is worth it because of the benefits of it being cradled by
>> mother Emacs : having all my normal text tools for translation,
>> spelling, searching etc in my gnus buffers is just too cool. It all
>> works together too well. I do remember being frustrated earlier because
>> of the incomprehensible manual and the raft of options (and being newish
>> to emacs). But it was worth it.
>
> But you probably get the same benefits with Mew...

So what is your experience with Mew concerning ease of setup, huge mail
boxes, message threading and general performance ?

-ap





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