Re: Mutt/Gnus hybrid for mail?

[Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>]

Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 08 2014, Peter Davis wrote:
>
>> For email, I like some things about mutt,
>
> Hi,
>
> What things?

Most significantly, since I only use mutt or gnus for email, I find mutt
more intuitive, since its commands, etc. were designed for email. "Delete"
instead of "Expire", etc. (BTW, I'm using both with Fastmail.fm IMAP.)

Also, when I delete/expire a message, mutt automatically displays the
next unread message in the folder. Gnus requires another keystroke. (Not
a big deal, but annoying.)

I have not managed to get gnus to display previously read messages in a
thread automatically, though I've messed around with 
(setq gnus-fetch-old-headers t). I gather this is inconsistent on IMAP
servers, and slow.

I realize I could customize gnus to behave exactly the way I want, but
I'm not a much of a lisper, so it would take me a fair bit of
effort. Anyway, customatizations are unlikely to improve
performance. Mutt seems faster at downloading messages, etc.

I'm certainly open to suggestions on how to improve any of these.

Thanks,
-pd