J閞鬽e Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've always wanted to switch from Gnus to another Emacs MUA because I > don't like its design (its API that is), but I failed to find anything > equivalent. And I'm afraid, MH-E is VM-like, according to its > documentation (no offence). And VM lacks many important features.
Well, see below. The MH-E documentation is actually obsolete. The new manual documenting all the new stuff is be released with the next version (V8.0). The modern MH-E is _not_ the once in packaged emacs21 (although the CVS Emacs does have a more recent version, it also doesn't have the latest version; 7.3 vs 7.4.3). The Debian package of MH-E is the last stable release. The CVS tree has a few extra features. > So far, if Gnus didn't exist, I would use Wanderlust > http://www.gohome.org/wl which offers quite some interesting features. > > For me, a good MUA needs to handle: > > - Multiple mailboxes MH-E simply lies on top on an MH implementation. While there is POP support in nmh (and IMAP in mu-mh), I simply use fetchmail to get my mail, which gives it to postfix which gives it to procmail. Therefore having multiple mailboxes is not a problem. > - Hierachical folders : sorting mailboxes in different folders Procmail can do this, either into separate mail spools or directly into MH folders. I do the former, and have an xbuffy displaying the newmail count of 17 different spool files. Clicking on them makes MH-E read the spool file in question. > - Mailing lists: when replying to the list, setting "To:" properly > as well as Mail-Followup-To MH-E has this for the M-F-T and any other field you wish to set based on who you are sending to. I coded it. Customize `mh-auto-fields-list'. I'm not sure what you seem by setting the To: field. There is a `reply to all' command. > - Multiple personalities: sets of address+organisation+signature and so on > that you can switch on the fly MH-E has got that. I coded it. See the second screenshot in http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/screenshots/ You can also set an identity as part of the `mh-auto-fields-list' above. > - at least: POP, IMAP, Mbox and Maildir > (I must have forgotten many features) Well, it's got to be MH style mail files.
