Re: mutt vs gnus

[Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net>]

On Wed, Jul 10 2002, Erwan David wrote:

> I use mutt with emacs (gnuclient in fact), except when I'm on a slow
> link. In this case I am gald I can switch to vi.

"emacs -nw"?

> One of the thing I cannit stand is an autistic mailer which cannot
> work on system mailbox or mailboxes in which mail arrives, but need to
> take the mail and put it elsewhere in its own format where standard
> low level tools won't be able to cope with it.

Depending on the other MUA you're planning to use, you can choose a
suitable Gnus backend. AFAIK, nnmaildir should even allow concurrent
use of Gnus and other MUAs. Or use nnimap. nnfolder stores mail in
standard Unix mailbox format, so you can read them with most Unix MUAs
(but do _not_ write to them behind Gnus' back). 

> Same thing for news : how can I decipher .newsrc.eld in order to get
> the list of read message if I want to change reader ?

,----[ C-h v gnus-save-newsrc-file RET ]
| gnus-save-newsrc-file's value is t
| 
| Documentation:
| *Non-nil means that Gnus will save the `.newsrc' file.
| Gnus always saves its own startup file, which is called
| ".newsrc.eld".  The file called ".newsrc" is in a format that can
| be readily understood by other newsreaders.  If you don't plan on
| using other newsreaders, set this variable to nil to save some time on
| exit.
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Bye, Reiner.
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