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Re: Using R-mail in Emacs


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: Using R-mail in Emacs
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 18:14:53 -0600
User-agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13)

Emanuel Berg wrote:
> So maybe the comment of Rmail being the
> "primary" mail-reader for Emacs was a stretch,
> because he, for the wrong reason, felt the need
> to defend it?

When I was using emacs-rmail back in the 1990s it was the only mailer
client available as I recall.  And it used Babyl format files only at
that time.  But then emacs-vm appeared and I switched to using
emacs-vm and found it a lot better for many reasons.  I didn't look at
the version history but back in those earlier days I think rmail was
considered the standard emacs mail reader.  Here it is 30 years later
and I am no longer using either but have been using mutt happily for
years.

And I have had similar experiences with gnus for, well, newsgroups.  I
am currently using gnus to read news but I don't really like it.  It
is very arcane by comparison to other newsreaders that I have used.
And here I am quite a hard core long time emacs user but I don't find
gnus to be a very good interface.  I am just trying to use it because
it is a long term emacs interface.  But I find doing even simple
things quite difficult to impossible.  I would never recommend gnus
for email.

Bob



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