[Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-04-09 Thread Uday S Reddy
Robert Goldman wrote: Is this really true? In my days of using VM --- I eventually gave it up for Thunderbird --- VM never had true IMAP support that could interact with folders on the server. All it did was use the IMAP protocol to populate its local mail directory. This isn't really full IM

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-04-01 Thread Daniel Goldin
I too am a non-programmer-type who loves emacs/org-mode. I second this approach. I don't think it will ever be possible -- nor desirable -- to create a pure out-of-the-box setup as in window's programs -- but this approach would work well for those of us able to tinker and learn a little but not qu

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-04-01 Thread Henri-Paul Indiogine
Giovanni Ridolfi writes: > "Eric Schulte" writes: >> peter.fri...@agfa.com writes: >>> Org prepares the body, then tells the mail app to prepare an mail with >>> it. [...] >>> On Windows or *nix I don't know, but I can only assume similar >>> functionality exists. Just a suggestion from an almo

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-04-01 Thread Giovanni Ridolfi
"Eric Schulte" writes: > peter.fri...@agfa.com writes: >> Org prepares the body, then tells the mail app to prepare an mail with >> it. [...] >> On Windows or *nix I don't know, but I can only assume similar >> functionality exists. >> > > My uneducated guess is that it will [...] > near impossi

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-04-01 Thread Eric Schulte
Hi Peter, peter.fri...@agfa.com writes: > > So, wouldn't it be good if org could send those nicely formatted > emails using their mail clients? 'M-x org-send-email' and woosh, there > it goes! > I agree this would be nice, however my initial reaction is that this will be the sort of project whic

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-04-01 Thread peter . frings
On 31 Mar 2010, at 21:09, Gary wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:53:17PM +0100, Leo wrote: > >> although many people have been saying it is >> intimidating, it is not. > > Oh yes it is :) I kind of agree. This brings up another question, related to the recent discussion about making a 'read

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-31 Thread Gary
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:53:17PM +0100, Leo wrote: > although many people have been saying it is > intimidating, it is not. Oh yes it is :) I fondly[1] remember spending *ages* trying to find out how to set the citation line (you don't, you setq message-citation-line-function 'my-message-inser

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-31 Thread Nick Dokos
Robert Goldman wrote: > Thanks for the news. I'm looking forward to having a new look at VM, if > it works well with IMAP now. > > Unfortunately, at least the documentation on the emacs wiki for how to > use IMAP is badly ambiguous. There's a paragraph on the distinction > between the use of l

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-31 Thread Nick Dokos
Robert Goldman wrote: > Manuel Hermenegildo fi.upm.es> writes: > > > > > > > I have to say in VM's defense that it is working very well for me (and > > has supported IMAP for a very long time) > > Is this really true? In my days of using VM --- I eventually gave it up for > Thunderbird ---

[Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-31 Thread Robert Goldman
Manuel Hermenegildo fi.upm.es> writes: > > > I have to say in VM's defense that it is working very well for me (and > has supported IMAP for a very long time) Is this really true? In my days of using VM --- I eventually gave it up for Thunderbird --- VM never had true IMAP support that could

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Geralt
Hi, wow, that looks really great, thanks :-)! Do you know by chance if it's possible to link sent mails in threads? I'm using Gmail and all my sent mail is in a folder called INBOX and it would be really great if I could see my own messages in the threads. Geralt.

[Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Leo
On 2010-03-30 18:34 +0100, Manuel Hermenegildo wrote: > I have to say in VM's defense that it is working very well for me (and > has supported IMAP for a very long time) and there are indeed people > working actively it. The old 7.19 version has indeed been frozen for a > long time, but I am using

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Dan Davison
Henri-Paul Indiogine writes: > Dan Davison writes: >> http://www.princeton.edu/~ddavison/gnus.png) > > Thanks for the .gnus code. Actually, I do not use .gnus and place all > in .emacs but I do not think that matters. > > I run Ubuntu Karmic + Gnu Emacs 23. Both updated > > Anyway, now my summ

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Henri-Paul Indiogine
Dan Davison writes: > http://www.princeton.edu/~ddavison/gnus.png) Thanks for the .gnus code. Actually, I do not use .gnus and place all in .emacs but I do not think that matters. I run Ubuntu Karmic + Gnu Emacs 23. Both updated Anyway, now my summary buffer looks very much like the image tha

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Dan Davison
"Eric Schulte" writes: > At this point it feels somewhat more like voting rather than a > discussion, but I feel compelled to say... > > +1 for gnus! Hi Simon, I use gnus, and received help from people on the list. Here's a small contribution if you do get going with it: The listing of email

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Manuel Hermenegildo
I have to say in VM's defense that it is working very well for me (and has supported IMAP for a very long time) and there are indeed people working actively it. The old 7.19 version has indeed been frozen for a long time, but I am using the latest versions out of the repo on Launchpad and Savannah

[Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Richard Riley
Simon Brown writes: > * Scott Brim (s...@employees.org) wrote: >> Wanderlust seems best at IMAP -- I would go there first, but if you've >> tolerated >> mutt's IMAP support this long, maybe you don't need good IMAP support. VM >> has nice integration with w3m for HTML. IMHO don't start on gn

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Eric Schulte
At this point it feels somewhat more like voting rather than a discussion, but I feel compelled to say... +1 for gnus! Gnus has far and away the biggest user base, the best support, and is the most actively developed (as far as I can tell VM -- which I used for a couple of years-- is a dead pro

[Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Richard Riley
Simon Brown writes: > * Richard Riley (rileyrg...@gmail.com) wrote: >> This is pretty "fanboi" of me but its really simple : use Gnus. It can >> do imap fine (you can always move to using a local dovecot >> server and use offlineimap to sync if performance is a problem). > I've had a quick look a

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Simon Brown
* Scott Brim (s...@employees.org) wrote: > Wanderlust seems best at IMAP -- I would go there first, but if you've > tolerated > mutt's IMAP support this long, maybe you don't need good IMAP support. VM > has nice integration with w3m for HTML. IMHO don't start on gnus if you've > never used i

[Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-30 Thread Scott Brim
Simon Brown cliffestones.demon.co.uk> writes: > > Hi all, > > I currently use mutt as my email client but I'm looking for greater > emacs integration and better html support. Org mode supports at least > gnus, vm and wanderlust. Can anybody advise on the relative pros and > cons? My main restri

[Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-29 Thread Ɓukasz Stelmach
Simon Brown writes: > * Richard Riley (rileyrg...@gmail.com) wrote: >> This is pretty "fanboi" of me but its really simple : use Gnus. It can >> do imap fine (you can always move to using a local dovecot >> server and use offlineimap to sync if performance is a problem). > I've had a quick look a

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-29 Thread Simon Brown
* Richard Riley (rileyrg...@gmail.com) wrote: > This is pretty "fanboi" of me but its really simple : use Gnus. It can > do imap fine (you can always move to using a local dovecot > server and use offlineimap to sync if performance is a problem). I've had a quick look at the gnus manual and it seem

[Orgmode] Re: Org mode and emacs email

2010-03-29 Thread Richard Riley
Simon Brown writes: > Hi all, > > I currently use mutt as my email client but I'm looking for greater > emacs integration and better html support. Org mode supports at least > gnus, vm and wanderlust. Can anybody advise on the relative pros and > cons? My main restriction is that I don't want to