svlug-mew_an_emacs_mail_reader

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To: Craig Oda - Personal email <craigoda@oda.dhs.org>
Cc: svlug@svlug.org
Subject: Re: [svlug] Red Hat Package Grouping Update Tool? 
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:17:07 -0800
From: J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu>

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:10:44 -0800 (PST) 
Craig Oda <- Personal email <craigoda@oda.dhs.org>> wrote:

> I have another comment related to mail programs that run within
> emacs.  I used to use mew http://www.mew.org and remember that it
> was pretty good.  

Debian has a mew package which appears to work.  I'm not a big mew
fan as I started with MH-E and have never bothered to look at mew
that hard.

> However, it would be easier to read the mail in an emacs buffer if
> there was a easy-to-use emacs mail reader package that store and
> search through a few gigs of mail.

gnus is the other canonical (X)Emacs solution with vm following
close behind.

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