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>>>>> "iain" == iain d broadfoot <ibroadfo@cis.strath.ac.uk> writes:
iain> * Hubert Chan (hubert@uhoreg.ca) wrote:
>> Gnus is a pain to set up, but once it gets going, it's wonderful.
>> It's the only mail reader that I know of that can fetch mail via an
>> ssh
iain> fetchmail does this. :D
Interesting. I remember looking at fetchmail a while back, but it
didn't quite look like what I wanted. And I don't remember seeing
anything about ssh fetching at that time. I may have to take another
look at it.
>> connection (so that I can fetch my mail from the Uni without exposing
>> my password), read news over an ssh connection, etc. I have a
>> laptop, so I
iain> slrn{, pull} does this. :p
Nice. Well, I wouldn't want to use slrn, since gnus does both mail and
news, and I don't really want to keep my own local spool.
>> have gnus detect where I am, and switch configurations based on that.
>> Gnus is probably overkill for a lot of people (especially if you
>> don't already use emacs), but for me, it just works exactly the way I
>> want it to.
iain> i have tried to like emacs, but i just can't...
iain> vim just feels right to me.
Yeah. I know the feeling. I've just recently learned to tolerate vim
(although I still hate plain vi), but I mainly just use it for small
editing jobs on the console, when I don't want to wait for emacs to
load. I'm just more comfortable in emacs.
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