[Discuss] FOSS email that doesn't suck -- does such a thing exist?

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)]

--On Monday, March 18, 2013 1:26 PM -0400 Daniel Barrett 
<dbarrett at blazemonger.com> wrote:

> Could you avoid this problem by using fetchmail to retrieve your email
> from the server, instead of using Emacs to do it? That's what I do.
> Haven't lost an email in the manner you describe for 20+ years.

This does not avoid the problem. It works around a specific case of the 
problem. MULE is still there. It can't be disabled. It will damage files. 
Therefore I will not use it.

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Rich P.