Re: Which mail user agent do you use?
dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:30:12PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
>
> | Gnus has some distinct advantages over mutt. In particular, it has
> | superior imap support, especially offline support, which was the
> | primary reason I switched from mutt.
>
> Mutt has geat off-line support : mbox, maildir, mh, <something else I
> forget>. Mutt kinda has imap support, but it views imap as just
> another folder format, nothing special. I use fetcmail to transfer
> the mail to local storage, and off-line is all I see :-).
Right, but it does not (yet?) support off-line imap, which is part of
the IMAP4rev1 rfc. You can use something like mailsync, but the gnus
agent does a much better job, imo.
> | Also, it's more configurable than mutt, especially display-wise, if
> | you don't mind elisp...
> |
> | Mutt is simple, light, fast, and just works for most people. But,
> | gnus does more tricks, if you're willing to train it. Anyone smell
> | breakfast cooking?
>
> Oh, I was wondering what the smoke was ;-).
>
> -D
>
>
> PS (notice the smileys before beginning a flamewar)
(gnus-treat-display-smileys nil)
You're gonna burn in hell, bitch!
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Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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