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Emacs + gnusEmacs + gnusPosted Jun 18, 2004 19:46 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)In reply to: Emacs + gnus by ssavitzky Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to mail clients: introduction Yes, I thought gnus was for news. I use it for that, but I use rmail for mail, because I thought I was supposed to. Do you know how they compare? Why does Emacs come with both rmail and gnus (or does it?). And doesn't gnus violate the Unix one-program-one-function law?
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Emacs + gnus Posted Jun 20, 2004 1:40 UTC (Sun) by IkeTo (subscriber, #2122) [Link] That "one-program-one-function" does not mean that you can't have alternatives, especially when there is an alternative view of what the functionality actually is.Gnus view Emails quite differently from any other mail software. Everybody else think that Emails are something that you don't want to lose unless you press a command to do so. Gnus views Emails to be similar to News and expires in the same way. You are encouraged to configure it to automatically split mails into many groups, each group expires in a different way. Once you get used to it, you'll find that mails and news are really not very different after all, especially for public mailing lists, mailing lists of the company you're working on, and people who will send you mail for exactly one reason (e.g., your insurance agent). You can say that this is a consequence of putting a round peg into a square hole, but I think otherwise. It gives you a break to have to delete Emails: all you do is to mark it as read (or simply catch up the whole group), the mail will be kept there for a while, and then will disappear by itself when it ages. And you keep mails for mail and news in the same way (using Gnus' "cache" feature), which copy it to a place and still treat it as part of the newsgroup rather than having you to find somewhere to copy to. After using it for I think 3 years, I'm pretty much ruled out from any other mail readers.
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