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I found trying to do this sort of thing (e.g. gnus + dovecot) a very helpful introduction to software engineering; once I got a job as a software engineer I fou
by Myrmornis 8y ago
I found trying to do this sort of thing (e.g. gnus + dovecot) a very helpful introduction to software engineering; once I got a job as a software engineer I found I didn't have time for a local setup that needed so much attention.
- pfortuny 8y agoIt needs no attention once you set it up. And the first steup is a bunch of copy-pastes and minor customization.
- Myrmornis 8y agoNo, I'm speaking from experience unfortunately! Things break, emacs changes, your OS changes, you decide you need a more recent version of something in order to get a certain feature or bug fix. You get a new laptop. Etc.
- microcolonel 8y agoNot to take away from what you have said, I and several others I know have used Gnus for roughly the last five years without any memorable change in configuration, across three major releases of Emacs.
- michaericalribo 8y agoI agree. I’ve learned immensely from using tools like mu and offlineimap, writing utilities for a maildir, and it can be great fun...but I need direct and unmediated access to email, I need it to ‘just work’ and let me copy-paste html text and images and drag and drop attachments. I have to use email to get other stuff done, I can’t spend time focusing on email itself.
- pfortuny 8y agoYeah, I see what you mean. I tend to agree.