>>>> Peter Davis writes:
>> 1)
I can't get messages to print to a network printer.
I don't think this
is Gnus specific.
>> 2) I can't get it to leave mail on a
POP3 server so I can read it
>> from multiple locations.
(I've read that epop3mail is able to do
>> this, but I have not
gotten it to work.)
See docs for
`mail-sources',
(pop :server "pop3.mailserver.com"
:user "myname")
This use to leave mail on a pop
server,
(setq pop3-leave-mail-on-server
t)
At any rate, IMAP is far superior for this. I use IMAP at home
to my
email server at work. I use POP to get mail at work. I
can view new
mail when I am at home this way, and don't keep any work
information
on my home PC. I found that it was a large waste of disk
space to
keep all email in two places. My home PC runs Linux and my
work PC
uses NT; both are running Emacs and Gnus.
>> 3)
I can't get it to do the "right thing" with HTML mail, which
>>
would be to allow me to either display it as plain text, or
to
>> open a browser (*not* W3) to display it.
I
generally discard it.
;; Show plain text over markup.
(setq
mm-discouraged-alternatives
(append
mm-discouraged-alternatives '("text/html" "text/richtext")))
(setq
gnus-article-wash-html nil)
(setq mm-inline-override-types
'("text/html"))
>>>>> "PK" == Paul Kinnucan
<address@hidden> writes:
PK> I'm a bit further down
this path than you. I tried the gnus for
PK> news and email route
and hated it almost instantly. I now use the
PK> right tool for
the right job, namely gnus for news and vm for
PK> email. I cannot
recommend vm highly enough. It is a full-fledged
PK> email client,
with folders, attachments, and pop3
VM is probably an easier
route. I think that this highly depends on
the amount of mailing list
that you subscribe to. There is very
little difference between a news
group and a mailing list IMHO. In
this case all of the features of
Gnus (like scoring, etc) help in
managing large amounts of email.
Also, using one client for both mail
and news is nice from the stand point
of having to learn only one
package. Although emacs packages are
usually very good at keeping the
default key bindings uniform.
It
was very difficult to setup Gnus to read email the way I wanted.
It took a
long time, with many intermediate steps. I think it was
well worth it
though. The good thing is that Gnus understands many
different mail
backends and you can `import' the mail messages at any
later time.
`gnu.emacs.gnus' would probably be a much more helpful
place than here for
resolving Gnus issues.
I have been using Gnus since July 1998 according
to Google/Deja, so
take my advice in that context. Anyways, the
message is more
important than the MUA ;-)
regards,
Bill
Pringlemeir.