Emacs

[Kevin D. Clark]

Paul Lussier writes:

> Gnus is a p.i.t.a. to get connected to an IMAP server. 

I guess this depends on your pain threshhold.  I do agree that it
might not be the best choice for somebody who really just wanted a
traditional GUI mailer (Thunderbird, Evolution).

>  Even more
> painful of SSL is involved, or the IMAP server is not, er, shall we
> say, completely "compliant".  In these cases, I've still found
> fetchmail+procmail+MUA-of choice to be the best option.

BTW, the IMAP server that I have had the most luck with is Courier.
It is the only one that has withstood my abuse so far.  Dovecot might
be better now, but I haven't tried it lately.

> [1] I've heard of current state being reset on all messages, flags
>     spontaneously removed, assigned, re-arranged, etc. as well as

I have never experienced any such problems.

Regards,

--kevin
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