From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Suvayu Ali Subject: Re: Outlook replacement Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:59:12 -0700 Message-ID: <20110325185912.259714bd@bhishma.homelinux.net> References: <87aagjdo5g.fsf@gmail.com> <87ei5u9a8p.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55311 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q3Imf-0006Tn-2d for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:59:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3Ime-0008Rn-2T for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:59:21 -0400 Received: from mail-yi0-f41.google.com ([209.85.218.41]:45529) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3Ime-0008Re-04 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:59:20 -0400 Received: by yib18 with SMTP id 18so510323yib.0 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:59:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87ei5u9a8p.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:11:02 +0000 Eric S Fraga wrote: > The short answer is to use *Emacs* for your email, How do you (as in all users using Emacs as their email client) deal with unreliable networks? When I used to use tramp over a particularly slow/unreliable network day before, I found every time tramp got stuck emacs would hang too until tramp could recover. I thought it was because emacs is still not multi-threaded (am I correct?), so a stuck process would bring make the entire session unresponsive. This was more annoying when I was running `emacs --daemon'. So as a conpromise, I resorted to using plugins (wherever I could) to use emacs as my alternate editor. So far this has worked very well in Firefox (It's all text), Thunderbird (Alternate Editor) and claws-mail (native support). Is there any resolution to these issues? If so, I would really love to try an Emacs based email client. Of course as always if my understanding is incorrect please feel free to correct me. :) -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.