[techtalk] X Mail client recommendations

Robert Kiesling kiesling at mainmatter.com
Sun Feb 20 23:50:16 EST 2000


"Dan McGarry" <dmcgarry at moodindigo.com> wrote:

> > I wrote an article recently comparing the readily-available E-mail
> > clients for Linux. If you want an integrated environment, look at
> > KDE's Kmail or Star Office.  If you don't mind the user interface,
> > then Emacs's VM or Gnus lisp packages are both very good, although
> > Gnus is a pain to set up.
> 
> Thanks, Robert. I use EMACS all the time as my editor, but lisp is not one
> of my favourite HLLs (!!*), so I've avoided any more than the simplest
> customizations. Could you point me to some decent documentation on VM,
> please?
> 
> [* I know: I'm just one big contradiction wrapped in human skin....]

It's not one of my favorite languages either.  I'm afraid I don't know
of any documentation besides what's in the distribution.  I guess the
usual advice from the Emacs gurus would be "use the source."


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