Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Emacs for mail and calendar

[Memnon Anon]

Jeff Clough <jeff@chaosphere.com> writes:

> You like Gnus, I don't.  Fair enough.

This sums it up nicely ;)

>> In short my email set up talks to an impa server, drags all emails in,
>> splits them into different folders, I then use different smtp servers
>> for sending depending on the posting style employed by that particular
>> group. It all works very, very fast, efficiently and reliably with
>> excellent customisation facilities. No. It's not "crap".
>
> So Gnus isn't crap as a *client* because you can do everything you
> want by running multiple *servers*!?!  I'm sorry, but in my world
> "become a sysadmin for a handful of servers" is in no way a reasonable
> solution to "i'd like to read my email now".

However, you got something wrong here. posting styles is the same as
"identities" in MS outlook, i.e. different names, different
mailaddresses, different smtp-server (gmail, hotmail, gmx etc.). So, no
one has to be sysadmin for a handful of servers ;).

I agree to several points you made:
a) Documentation is, well, not optimal.
   I got my config finally using quite a bit of time and bits and pieces
   from different homepages, emacswiki, etc.
b) The mail=news=rssfeed etc. approach might not be optimal for
   everyone.
c) If mew works great for you, just stay with it ;).

I personally love gnus. Now that it works ;). If I lost my config, I am
not sure I would go through the hazzle to refactor it again. 
But it is *not* necessary to "become a sysadmin for a handful of
servers" ;).