Re: MUA from Emacs with convinces for mail threads?

[Richard Riley]

Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za> writes:

> On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:04:27 +0200, Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote:
>
>> Gnus (M-x gnus RET) should provide most of what you're looking for.
>> 
>> But it's not for the faint hearted, so I'm careful with my
>> recommendations. 
>> 
>> For the record: I've used gnus for NNTP since 1990 or thereabouts, and
>> for all of my email from 1996.  And I've been using CVS Gnus, and later
>> git Gnus, since 1997.  So it _is_ fully usable... but it requires a
>> certain mindset...
>
> I would also recommend Wanderlust as another Emacs based MUA. For an
> interesting introduction see:
> http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/06/e-mail-with-wanderlust.html

If you use wanderlust your support options will be very limited. most
people I am aware of used it because of its superior imap performance
over older versions of Gnus. Gnus is now very IMAP friendly and has a
very healthy support and user base.