gambletron 3000 - Slashdot User

Journal Journal: Emacs email on OS X

Journal by gambletron 3000 on Wednesday May 28, 2003 @03:12PM

I've been trying to figure out how to set up an email system within Emacs such as Gnus or VM. The twist is that a) it's on OS X and b) I want to continue using OS X's Mail.app for its spam filtering abilities. So what I'd like is an Emacs mail package that can read Mail.app's mbox files instead of fetching the emails itself. It looks like Gnus can do that, but I can't quit figure out how. Plus I did see a referen

Journal Journal: Still messing around with this.

Journal by gambletron 3000 on Thursday April 24, 2003 @02:14PM

The other day I accidentally saw a list of recent journal entries from all across Slashdot, but now I can't find it. I found it right after I made a posting to my journal so maybe I'll find it again.

Journal Journal: So how does this work

Journal by gambletron 3000 on Tuesday April 22, 2003 @09:44AM

This is an entry. I didn't even realize Slashdot had a blogging/journal function. If I had known that I probably wouldn't have bothered with setting up my other blog.

Comment Webmail too much of a hassle (Score 1) 432

by gambletron 3000 on Thursday March 21, 2002 @12:21PM (#3200577) Attached to: Yahoo To Try To Charge For POP3 Services

I've got half a dozen Yahoo ID's I check via POP. To try to check them all via the WWW interface would take too long. I like to keep the IDs separate so I can keep track of what the email is about.

I see three options:
1. Find another free POP/forwarding provider (any hints?)
2. Find a way to do this with my ISP account without giving away my ISP username (any hints that don't involve changing ISPs?)
3. Pony up the dough to Yahoo.

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