Re: Re: Org mode and emacs email

From: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: Simon Brown <simon@cliffestones.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Scott Brim <swb@employees.org>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Org mode and emacs email
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:40:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrwtu2qn.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877hotrbor.fsf@gmail.com> (Eric Schulte's message of "Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:55:48 -0600")

"Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:

> At this point it feels somewhat more like voting rather than a
> discussion, but I feel compelled to say...
>
>   +1 for gnus!

Hi Simon,

I use gnus, and received help from people on the list. Here's a small
contribution if you do get going with it:

The listing of emails in the summary buffer will look *terrible* with
the default settings. But you can make it look really nice using unicode
characters for arrows etc. (Example settings below, screenshot at
http://www.princeton.edu/~ddavison/gnus.png)

(Plus, if you use gnus you don't have to see these ridiculous
Kindergarten-style dotted lines and scissors that people put in
emails :) )

Dan

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
;; http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.gnus/browse_thread/thread/a673a74356e7141f
(when window-system
  (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-indent "  ")
  (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-root "") ;; "● ")
  (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-false-root "") ;; "◯ ")
  (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-indent "") ;; "◎ ")
  (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-vertical        "│")
  (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-leaf-with-other "├─► ")
  (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-leaf     "╰─► "))

(setq gnus-summary-line-format
      (concat
       "%0{%U%R%z%}"
       "%3{│%}" "%1{%d%}" "%3{│%}" ;; date
       "  "
       "%4{%-20,20f%}"               ;; name
       "  "
       "%3{│%}"
       " "
       "%1{%B%}"
       "%s\n"))

(setq gnus-summary-display-arrow t)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

>
> Gnus has far and away the biggest user base, the best support, and is
> the most actively developed (as far as I can tell VM -- which I used for
> a couple of years-- is a dead project).  Gnus is distributed with Emacs
> and all of it's mime and message handling libraries are distributed with
> Emacs.
>
> The config can be daunting if you don't have any help, however there are
> many friendly people on this list who I'm sure would be happy to share
> their gnus imap config (please feel free to contact me off list), and
> once you have the basics working it's really a joy to use.
>
> Just my personal subjective biased opinion :) -- Eric
>
> Simon Brown <simon@cliffestones.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
>> * Scott Brim (swb@employees.org) wrote:
>>> Wanderlust seems best at IMAP -- I would go there first, but if you've tolerated 
>>> mutt's IMAP support this long, maybe you don't need good IMAP support.  VM 
>>> has nice integration with w3m for HTML.  IMHO don't start on gnus if you've 
>>> never used it.  Then there's MEW, which is also a good one.  They all work with 
>>> mbox-style mail files.
>> I'm trying Wanderlust, but I've started to wonder if it's worth the
>> effort. I've moved from mbox to Maildirs but wanderlust doesn't seem
>> to be able to recognise the subdirectories. I don't want to be
>> changing config everytime I change a list subscription. I also have
>> yet to get it to successfully autheniticate with any imap server. 
>>
>> I've got nowhere near trying the org integration. I might try
>> installing vm 8.1 but at the moment I've already squandered far too
>> much time on this.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Simon
>
>
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