Re: Emacs for email: Rmail v VM v Gnus

[Uday Reddy]

chad writes:

> If you want to use emacs and keep your mail on the server, you
> probably want to look into Wanderlust. Gnus can do it also [...]
> 
> If you don't mind moving to keep your email locally, your options
> expand quite a bit. In addition to Gnus, you can try rmail, mh-e, and
> VM. 

I would like to correct the impression that VM is a local folder mail
client.  Starting with version 8.1.0 (released in March 2010), VM has had
full support for IMAP.  Quoting from the release notes for 8.1.0:

  MAJOR NEW FEATURES:

    * Support for reading and replying to messages in HTML.

    * Full support for IMAP servers.  (See "IMPROVEMENTS for
      imap-folders".) 

I should also add that VM is very similar to Rmail in its basic structure,
but extends Rmail with full support for MIME and POP/IMAP servers.  It also
has a very powerful virtual folder facility.  (VM was in fact the inventor
of the "virtual folder" concept).  Virtual folders are extremely useful when
you have to deal with large quantities of email, with multiple mail folders
etc.

You can find the public releases of VM here:

  http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/viewmail/

and the development versions here:

  http://launchpad.net/vm

Cheers,
Uday