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Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Using gnus somewhat painful?
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Alex Kavanagh |
Subject: |
Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Using gnus somewhat painful? |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Jan 2006 11:15:55 +0000 |
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Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (Sanjō) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.4 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) |
At Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:19:32 -0800,
Gregory Novak wrote:
>
> Some time ago I started reading mail in Emacs because of PlannerMode
> (so that I could have links to messages and such). I started with VM,
> which was fine but is starting to get moldy. I switched to Gnus and
> have been having a somewhat difficult time. People on the Gnus
> mailing list seem somewhat prickly so I'm posting here to see if
> anyone has useful experience.
>
> Getting things working (setting up the servers and such) wasn't a
> problem and I'm using the nnimap backend. Most of the trouble seems
> to stem from that fact. A few of the problems:
>
> - Gnus doesn't seem good about either maintaining or restarting the
> connection to the IMAP server. Many times I have to quit Gnus and
> restart. Sometimes this seems to cause emacs to hang forever and I
> have to kill it.
I've not used Gnus but I do use Wanderlust and it has excellent IMAP
support including a very good offline mode. Configuration can be a
bit tricky, but it really does have one of the best offline IMAP
handling I've come across.
Cheers
Alex.