RE: A little help from my friends

[Michel Pelletier <michel@digicool.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Josefsson [mailto:jas@pdc.kth.se]
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 2:12 PM
> To: michel@digicool.com
> Cc: nwilliams@primeon.com; nnimap@extundo.com
> Subject: Re: A little help from my friends
> 
> 
> Hm, it shouldn't spin forever. Could you eval `(setq debug-on-quit)'
> and try A A, C-g when it spin and mail me the backtrace?
> 

Someone pointed out to me that this was user error.

> 
> Because Gnus is 80.000 lines of code (nnimap is 3 Kloc, for
> comparison) and you don't write that in one day. :-) I think it's much
> easier to fix the problems in Gnus than to write something from
> scratch, there's ALOT of good stuff in Gnus that I haven't seen
> collected into one mail reader before.
> 

Yes, I'm beginning to like it more and more. ;)

> OTOH, there is a project called Wanderlust which is a mail/news reader
> written from scratch, with IMAP support, written in Elisp.  It lacked
> lots of stuff I've been taking for granted with Gnus when I tried it
> (note: several months ago) though.
> 

I'll check that out, thanks.

-Michel