Re: Alternatives to Gnus

[Francis Moreau]

On Sep 2, 11:51 am, Tim X <t...@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
> Francis Moreau <francis.m...@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Sep 2, 12:31 am, Tim X <t...@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
> >> Francis Moreau <francis.m...@gmail.com> writes:
> >> > Could the emacs users give me some alternatives ?
>
> >> I'm not convinced that there are any huge advantages in having the same
> >> program to both read/send/manage email and read/send/manage news.
>
> > Well a common interface: less key bindings, one config file etc...
>
> IMO the common interface is emacs and the common configuration file is
> .emacs
>
> My point re: advantages is that the similarity between news and mail
> is really only surface deep. How I want to manage the messages, the type
> of filtering I do, where things are stored etc are quite different. I've
> found it rare that one program does both well - you tend to either have
> news being forced into a mail type paradigm or mail being forced into a
> news type one.

Actually I've never found weird to have mail being handled like news,
and that's not what forced me to leave gnus.

> > Why are you using both of them ?
>
> Because I am on the VM development team. Sometimes, while fixing bugs or
> adding features, my copy of VM may not be stable, but I need to maintain
> a stable environment.

Does that mean that there's no VM stable release out there ? ;)

> I also like to have another mail reader available
> for comparison purposes.

Ok.