Re: Emacs for email: Rmail v VM v Gnus

[Francesco Mazzoli]

At Sun, 8 Jul 2012 22:50:46 +0100,
James Freer wrote:
> I much appreciated your reply but i'm still struggling with some
> basics hence why i haven't replied earlier. Reading the emacs.pdf i am
> hoping to set up Rmail 'remotely' - that is [as i understand it like i
> have Alpine... using imap i am just using the email client to 'look'
> straight at the server without downloading headers or the entire
> message

I don't think Rmail can do that. Wanderlust, Gnus and Mew do it, and from my
(little) experience Wanderlust does it best.

> use two machines so downloading mail doesn't seem the right
> approach. Basically avoiding the adverts from the webmail interface and
> hopefully a little customising to my liking and having a full screen for
> reading mail. I hope to use the trmail [thread messages] programme listed on
> Emacswiki.

The alternative is to use something like offlineimap or similar software that
synchronises IMAP folders with some local storage (in the case of offlineimap,
Maildir).

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Francesco * Often in error, never in doubt