Emacs users: what software do I need to send and recieve emails with Ubuntu/emacs on my laptop?

[Peter Smerdon]

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 13:46 +0100, Peter Sabaini wrote:

> >
> > Hm, its been a few days without an answer, so here's my 0.02EUR.
> 
> PS.: but do let me know how it works out for you -- maybe I'll give Gnus a 
> shot :-)  
> 
> thx,
> peter.
> 
> > I cannot say anything on Gnus; I don't read usenet news and Gnus is IMHO a
> > bit news-centric. Judging from the manual you should be fine with the
> > openssl package installed; reading POP mail and sending mail should work
> > out of the box ( http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_toc.html ). Have you tried
> > it?
> >
> > FWIW, I tried to switch to the vm emacs mail reader once but had trouble
> > accessing SSL Imap so I'm back to KMail and emacs as an external editor.
> >
> > cheers,
> > peter.
> >
> > > Peter.

I will let you know how it goes! I have heard of vm but never tried,
might take a look a that too, it doesent *have* to be Gnus, but
something within emacs would be nicer.

-- 
Peter Smerdon <psmerdon at magma.ca>