From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 9 1:10:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.0.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E2D14D00 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 01:08:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hafner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) Received: from hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ([131.159.0.200] EHLO hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ident: root [port 4622]) by tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de with ESMTP id <111758-6947>; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:08:23 +0000 Received: from hafner@localhost by hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de id <24235-709>; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 10:08:07 +0200 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa) References: <5088.936836795@localhost> <199909090043.RAA39434@rah.star-gate.com> <19990909120801.A49847@gurney.reilly.home> <199909090404.WAA01063@mt.sri.com> From: Walter Hafner X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Date: 09 Sep 1999 10:08:06 +0200 In-Reply-To: Nate Williams's message of "Wed, 8 Sep 1999 22:04:34 -0600" Message-ID: Lines: 40 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Williams 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: hafner@in.tum.de WWW: http://www.tum.de/~hafner/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message