Nate Williams <n...@mt.sri.com> writes: > > Nate: it's a while since I looked at VM on XEmacs. I found its > > layout cluttered and it's key sequences awkward. How configurable > > is it, really? Do you use it as it comes out of the box? > > Really configurable, and no, I don't use it in an out-of-the-box > configuration. > > I remap many of the keybindings, as well as have it setup to deal with > procmail filtered email, which works very well.
I can only second Nate: I use procmail to filter all incoming mail in seperate folders (mailinglists, admin-mails, ...), use SpamBouncer (procmail script; http://www-new.hrweb.org/spambouncer/) to filter out spam and Emacs/VM to read my mails. Together, these tools do a _very_ good job in organizing my mails. This approach at least halved the time I need to wade through mails every day. Regarding configurability: If SpamBouncer doesn't get all spam, a simple "Z" in VM will mail all postmasters/abuse-accounts on the mailpath, informing them about abuse. You can do this and essentially every other task by using the provided 'hooks'. Ok, it takes a bit of lisp programming ... Another benefit of this approach is, that I can process mails further, without leaving Emacs. Say, if someone mailed me sourcecode, I can edit it, compile, run and delete it - all in Emacs. :-) But then, I'm an Emacs addict (typing this in GNUS, the Emacs newsreader). :-) -Walter [knowing that he's starting a holy war!] -- Dr. Walter Hafner Tel: 089/289-28187 WWW-Beauftragter, TU Muenchen Email: haf...@in.tum.de WWW: http://www.tum.de/~hafner/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
