From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/11886 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Asgeir Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Many email clients in parallel Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:29:15 +0100 Organization: Guest of ProXad - France Message-ID: <871vunxrtg.fsf@free.fr> References: <36ac3fcc-2405-40df-95a8-063f103d35a3@r36g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <6ihglzo478@david.huge.strangled.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233209223 20141 80.91.229.12 (29 Jan 2009 06:07:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:07:03 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 29 07:08:17 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LSQ4W-0006VN-5s for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:08:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46895 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LSQ3E-0005dd-0k for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:06:56 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed3-b.proxad.net!nnrp14-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lBf9hoEAx8NCzETyiKFtVi+5c+A= Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Jan 2009 18:29:13 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.233.201.74 Original-X-Trace: 1233163753 news-1.free.fr 4770 82.233.201.74:52541 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:82147 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:04:31 -0500 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:11886 Archived-At: Why don't get your mails with GNUS and let him sort them using the To/Cc headers ? That's more simple but enougth efficient for a daily usage... Andrzej Adam Filip writes: > thruxton wrote: >> I would like to use Gnus to read email/newsgroups on my ubuntu laptop >> but am unsure what extra software I need to install to do so. >> I have home email, work email and gmail/yahoo mail to configure, most >> use ssl on the smtp end, do I need utilities like starttls or msmtp >> installed? >> >> Do I need fetchmail & sendmail or does Gnus manage all of these >> things? >> >> I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and the emacs-snapshot that includes Gnus v5.13 >> I am comfortable with fetchmail getting my emails and pointing Gnus to >> my inbox, but as for sending email and using helper utilites I am not >> sure what to install. >> >> Thanks for any advice you can give me. > > Would you like to create configuration allowing you to use *multiple* > email clients/news readers in parallel? > > e.g. > 1) I prefer to install "local IMAP server" (e.g. dovecot) and use > fetchmail to download messages from remote mailboxes into local > imap folders (with sieve/procmail filtering and sorting). > 2) You can use leafnode to download usenet newsgroups (from many > sources) to local news spool also accessible via nntp -- Asgeir