Re: Emacs for email: Rmail v VM v Gnus

[James Freer]

On 4 August 2012 20:21, Jeremiah Dodds <jeremiah.dodds@gmail.com> wrote:
> Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 03 2012, James Freer wrote:
>>
>>> I just want something as easy as Thunderbird or similar to set up -
>>> just enter in the pop/imap and smtp bits... then use.
>>
>> No problem with Gnus: just accept the default settings.
>
> Funnily enough, it took me a couple failed attempts and quite a bit of
> gathering emacs experience to be able to set up gnus (mostly for email)
> easily. When I did it, I was like "wait, that's all I needed to do? WTF
> was wrong with me before?" Of course, I couldn't remember wtf was wrong
> with me before.


That's a good point. The fastest mail reader would probably be the simplest

> That said, I'm not sure how gnus compares to GUI clients wrt speed, but
> it's certainly not regarded as a "speedy" mail reader...
>
> Jeremiah Dodds

which would suit me... so out of Gnus, WL, VM and MH-E -- which [has
anyone actually tried each of them].

james