Re: emacs 24 and gnus

[Tommy Kelly <tommy.kelly@verilab.com>]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:

> That is true, but I think I probably stick with the released Gnus at
> some point ( if I ever get my spam-split working again - I still havent
> see a working one with nnmail and nnimap split settings) as I had a few
> bad experiences with losing email in the last mad development phase
> which saw the brilliant IMAP improvements.

I concur. The excellent IMAP speed improvements aren't enough to
compensate for my inability to get fancy splitting working (although
that's not a new-versus-old-gnus issue -- just a
fancy-split-is-hard-to-get-working one). While I was spending time
wrestling with lisp, my email backlog grew to over 500 messages. And
then it grew further, to almost 1000, when at one point Gnus decided to
mark all my messages as read and I had no choice but to unmark enough
back in time so as to be sure I caught everything I hadn't yet handled!

Given that one of the reasons I moved to gnus was because of its support
for org-mode and org-mode itself is hard enough to learn, I'm
temporarily (I hope) having to revert to gmail via a browser (cue sound
of chicken clucking :-) ), at least until such times as I've gotten my
arms around org and can maybe have another crack at fancy splitting.

Tommy