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Is anyone here using GNUS as their daily email client? I used to use mutt back in the day, and I was kind of surprised that the author was using emacs with mutt

Is anyone here using GNUS as their daily email client? I used to use mutt back in the day, and I was kind of surprised that the author was using emacs with mutt rather than just using emacs. That said, I got as far as getting emacs / gnus to sync a gmail account before realizing that I'd need to spend some serious time reading manuals and tweaking configuration before I'd be able to use it day to day.

unhammer 12y ago
I use gnus. On my desktop I run offlineimap+fastmail, on my laptop I just use fastmail directly. Gnus is great for reading/posting to Gmane newsgroups, I would use it for that even if I switched to something else for reading email. For plain mail reading it actually could be a lot better. For example, support for seeing your own replies in a thread is a bit flaky (notmuch.el is better for that), and since Emacs is single-threaded, sending large attachments blocks it (perhaps I should use that relay trick from the article, but then it's not often I use email for sharing big files).
namarkiv 12y ago
I used to run GNUS, I switched to mu4e over a year ago, and haven't looked back.
- peatmoss 12y ago
  I'm looking at the webpage now. Sounds like it tries to resolve some of the thread locking issues. Not sure I'd use the orgmode -> rich text email feature, but that is pretty awesome. Anything in particular you find superior to GNUS or otherwise useful?
  - namarkiv 12y ago
    Well, the idea behind mu is to use searches to filter your email instead of using imap folders. Indexing does feel a little slow sometimes, but it is far better than writing procmail rules to filter email.
deong 12y ago
I could still run it. I have a .gnus file that works with my current accounts (all Gmail/Apps accounts). The problem with Gnus is that nnimap is unbearably slow and quirky in its own ways, and nnmaildir, which you'd ideally use with something like offlineimap to make Gnus work on a local copy for speed, is such a weird non-standard one-off backend that it's really hard to sync back to the server. At least that was true a couple of years ago when I last made a serious attempt to use it. I think the modern emacs mail approach is probably either notmuch.el or mu4e, whichever interface you prefer.

unhammer 12y ago

I use gnus. On my desktop I run offlineimap+fastmail, on my laptop I just use fastmail directly. Gnus is great for reading/posting to Gmane newsgroups, I would use it for that even if I switched to something else for reading email. For plain mail reading it actually could be a lot better. For example, support for seeing your own replies in a thread is a bit flaky (notmuch.el is better for that), and since Emacs is single-threaded, sending large attachments blocks it (perhaps I should use that relay trick from the article, but then it's not often I use email for sharing big files).

namarkiv 12y ago

I used to run GNUS, I switched to mu4e over a year ago, and haven't looked back.

peatmoss 12y ago
I'm looking at the webpage now. Sounds like it tries to resolve some of the thread locking issues. Not sure I'd use the orgmode -> rich text email feature, but that is pretty awesome. Anything in particular you find superior to GNUS or otherwise useful?
- namarkiv 12y ago
  Well, the idea behind mu is to use searches to filter your email instead of using imap folders. Indexing does feel a little slow sometimes, but it is far better than writing procmail rules to filter email.

deong 12y ago

I could still run it. I have a .gnus file that works with my current accounts (all Gmail/Apps accounts). The problem with Gnus is that nnimap is unbearably slow and quirky in its own ways, and nnmaildir, which you'd ideally use with something like offlineimap to make Gnus work on a local copy for speed, is such a weird non-standard one-off backend that it's really hard to sync back to the server. At least that was true a couple of years ago when I last made a serious attempt to use it. I think the modern emacs mail approach is probably either notmuch.el or mu4e, whichever interface you prefer.