Re: That newfangled IMAP thing...

[Frank Schmitt <ich@frank-schmitt.net>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:07:14 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote: 
>
> LMI> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>> The storage is easy if the backend supports it (which is why it's been
>>> done like that so far).  The value is when we reuse the logic for
>>> merging and resolving conflicts and we let users store marks outside of
>>> the newsrc.eld (for NNTP access from home vs. work for instance).
>
> LMI> My vision is that Gnus in Emacs 24 should be so snappy and usable that a
> LMI> normal nerdy programmer user would prefer using Gnus to, er, what,
> LMI> Mozilla?  Or whatever the kids these days are using.
>
> Pretty much everyone I know uses Outlook or web clients.  The GMail IMAP
> support makes a big difference.

I hang around an IRC channel of guys who previously almost all used Gnus
(some of them did run mygnus.org in the olden days). Most of them have
switched in recent years, I think they now use Thunderbird or Sylpheed
Claws.

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