Re: How do you read mails when gnus is not available?

[Joseph Barillari <jbarilla@princeton.edu>]

>>>>> "JH" == Jinhyok Heo <novembre+dated+1059016389.f4e7aa@ournature.org> writes:

    JH> Well, I want to know how you send and receive mails when your
    JH> guns is not available?

    JH> Gnus is something that I cannot do without. But sometimes I am
    JH> away from my machine and it is hard to get good connection to
    JH> my machine.  It is quite difficult to do something with a
    JH> remote gnus due to the slow connection.

    JH> How do you manage this kind of situation? I wish to compare
    JH> various ways to enjoy email without gnus.

When you say 'remote emacs', are you referring to an X session, or a
terminal session?

If you're referring to the latter, short of switching back to BSD
mail(1), I doubt you can get that much speed improvement.

If you just want to try a different terminal-based client (which won't
be much better than terminal-based emacs in terms of
bytes-over-the-wire), I recommend mutt. I used to use it before I
switched to Gnus. It's a full-featured, quick curses-based
client. Only downside to it is that you have to boot up emacs every
time you change a message. (Admittedly, it's possible to avoid this,
either by using vi, or by pulling some tricks with ansi-term and
emacsserver.)

Best, --Joe


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