cracauer@
Developer
I still read large mailing lists with nn. Procmail converts the mails to usenet articles and I use nn to read via an INN server. I didn't find any mailer that is as efficient (mainly fast) to get rid of large amounts of mail. Also, INN expires old articles, so it doesn't grow indefinitely.
Now, the problem is replying. nn itself of course only makes usenet replies. There are some gateways that convert that back to email that are all garbage. I tried various self-made methods, the most successful of which is
- a perl script that takes the usenet headers and restores the email headers (which my to-usenet gateway encodes in the article)
- call mutt on that article in a new xterm
As you can imagine that is quite clunky. I want something better.
Is there no mailer (preferably inside a terminal) that is as efficient as nn?
Here is what nn does that makes it efficient:
So you go like this:
- space space space all the garbage is gone and doesn't reappear unless you ask for it
- your eagle eye spots something interesting, you select it, maybe with * for the whole thread
- you don't read at that time, you go on through more pages
- you Shift-Z to enter reading mode, all articles that you selected will be displayed
- SPACE in reading mode marks the article read and moves on
Anything like this that operates directly on Mail? GNUS maybe?
Now, the problem is replying. nn itself of course only makes usenet replies. There are some gateways that convert that back to email that are all garbage. I tried various self-made methods, the most successful of which is
- a perl script that takes the usenet headers and restores the email headers (which my to-usenet gateway encodes in the article)
- call mutt on that article in a new xterm
As you can imagine that is quite clunky. I want something better.
Is there no mailer (preferably inside a terminal) that is as efficient as nn?
Here is what nn does that makes it efficient:
- It displays a page of articles
- SPACE just marks the whole page as read and goes to the next page
- letters a-z and 0-9 select individual articles for read or saving or whatever
- * after a letter marks the whole thread
- there is a way to re-display pages that have been marked read
- display is threaded
So you go like this:
- space space space all the garbage is gone and doesn't reappear unless you ask for it
- your eagle eye spots something interesting, you select it, maybe with * for the whole thread
- you don't read at that time, you go on through more pages
- you Shift-Z to enter reading mode, all articles that you selected will be displayed
- SPACE in reading mode marks the article read and moves on
Anything like this that operates directly on Mail? GNUS maybe?