Re: How to set up Emacs as a mail client (with mail saved/filed on an IMAP server)

[N. Jackson]

"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
> Hi N,

Hi Loris, thank you for your response.

> http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_398.html#SEC451

I had missed that there is a FAQ buried in the appendices of the Gnus
Info manual! It contains some quite useful tips that led me directly or
indirectly to most of the solutions to my puzzle. :)

> Gnus does work with IMAP.  Look here:
>
> http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_208.html

Yes. I had spent quite a bit of time in this part of the manual
previously. I had the IMAP part set up "correctly". What I was missing
(until the last couple of days) was the other parts of the puzzle:
Viewing my inbox and other mail folders / filing read mail / navigating
to filed mail folders.

I now have methods for those mostly sorted out.

The only real inconvenience remaining is that when I configure variables
for Gnus the values are global, and I don't see yet how to restrict
their scope to a particular server or group or retrieval method.

> I haven't used RMAIL for years, but look here:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Remote-Mailboxes.html#Remote-Mailboxes

It doesn't seem that RMAIL does what I want at all, and now that I have
things almost working in Gnus, I guess I won't be investigating this
avenue further at this point.

>> 4. Mutt with Emacs as external editor
>
> This is probably possible.  However, it strikes me as a little bizarre
> since there are solutions within Emacs

Indeed. It doesn't look like I will need to resort to this. Gnus it
is. :)

> Cheers,
>
> Loris

Thanks Loris.

N.