Re: Getting starting with gnus for mail

[Joe Davison <halting@attbi.com>]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Eric Schwartz wrote:
>  Joe Davison <halting@attbi.com> writes:
>  
> > That much I (think I) understand.  I've not yet done enough reading
> > / experimenting to pick a backend myself.  I'm in much the same
> > place you are -- I use Apple's mail.app on OS X (10.2.6) which uses
> > mbox format.  I don't want to screw up that file, because my wife
> > also reads the mail, but she only uses mail.app.
>  
>  Can you do that without manually importing mail from each of your
>  folders each time?
>  

I don't know.  That's what I need to figure out.

When I worked (I'm now "retired") I used (X)emacs/VM along with Sun's
MailTool.  VM moved the mail from /var/mail to a local file, but I could
set up Mailtool to use the same file, so I could easily switch between
the two tools as needed.  That was great.  I also used Gnus to read
newsgroups.  I kept reading about the ability to use Gnus for both, and
having a single interface seemed appealing.  Now I need to figure out if
it can really be done.

I'm beginning to suspect I'd be better off forgetting Gnus for mail, and
going with VM, if I want to share the mail folders with other tools,
since, as I understand it, the basic file structure of news and mail
differs so much.

joe