From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Subject: Re: Org mode and emacs email Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:53:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20100329112210.GA3814@wilbury.neustadt.demon.co.uk> <20100330160105.GA5420@wilbury.neustadt.demon.co.uk> <877hotrbor.fsf@gmail.com> <19378.13870.53283.779327@gazelle-32.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NwhV4-00006x-IO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:53:22 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38043 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NwhV3-0008WM-3g for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:53:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwhV1-0000Wl-Bj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:53:20 -0400 Received: from ppsw-6.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.136]:41423) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwhV1-0000WQ-45 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:53:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <19378.13870.53283.779327@gazelle-32.local> (Manuel Hermenegildo's message of "Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:34:38 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Manuel Hermenegildo Cc: Scott Brim , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 2010-03-30 18:34 +0100, Manuel Hermenegildo wrote: > I have to say in VM's defense that it is working very well for me (and > has supported IMAP for a very long time) and there are indeed people > working actively it. The old 7.19 version has indeed been frozen for a > long time, but I am using the latest versions out of the repo on > Launchpad and Savannah, > > https://launchpad.net/vm > https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/viewmail/ > > with emacs 23. While it is clear that it does not have a huge team > behind it, as you can see there Uday S. Reddy and Ulrich Mueller are > quite active maintainers (there were 28 commits in March, for > example). > > VM provides all the functionality I need (including very good MIME and > html support, interacting very well with w3w) with an interface that > is very natural to emacs users (similar to rmail) and which avoids the > complications of gnus. There is a good interface to maildir for > example, and also to org mode. The virtual folder mechanism is really > very good. > > The only missing thing for me is direct support for maildir but the VM > maintainers are currently working on it. > > Manuel Now that message mode has become the default mailer in Emacs 23.2+ unless people are already using a mua that they like, it is highly advisable to use Gnus, which although many people have been saying it is intimidating, it is not. It is intimidating only because it is like org, it can do so many things related to email/news but you don't need to do them all at the beginning. Give it a news server such as news.gmane.org then you can start using it on browsing mailing lists of projects of your interest including this one. Leo -- H A P P Y H O L I D A Y S!