From: Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg@posteo.de>
To: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com>, org mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 09:50:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1z01hv9.fsf@posteo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2io8sh4jq.fsf@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Seconded. Mu4e is one of my favorite things in Emacs and makes a big
difference in my professional life. Its search capabilities are similar
to those offered by Gmail but Mu4e is faster and I don’t need to be
online. I wrote helm-mu to optimize the search experience even further
(gives you instant search results as you type):
https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm-mu
As an alternative to offlineimap, I recommend mbsync (also known as
isync) which is faster and overall more mature and reliable.
Titus
On 2015-08-06 Thu 07:31, John Kitchin wrote:
> I am a happy mu4e + offlineimap user since January. Gmail is my mail
> server, and I also check mail by phone, tablet, sometimes browser. I run
> on a Mac with no issues so far. I would guess you could get a similar
> setup on Linux easily enough. I never got a good solution on Windows.
>
> To be fair, I have it set up to only update every 20 minutes, which I
> like, and I can force it to update when I want, or sometimes I switch to
> a browser at times where I need real-time updates. Most of the time I
> don't want that though!
>
> I did hack some things to get it more like the gmail experience I am
> accustomed to like archiving, and I did hack a function to remove myself
> from replies.
>
> (defun remove-kitchin-emails ()
> "Removes me from the CC list. I do not need my own emails that I send."
> (interactive)
> (message-goto-cc)
> (save-restriction
> (let ((end (point))
> (start))
>
> (beginning-of-line)
> (setq start (point))
> (narrow-to-region start end)
> (mapc
> (lambda (email-to-remove)
> (beginning-of-line)
> (when (re-search-forward email-to-remove nil t)
> (replace-match "")))
> '("John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>,?"
> "John Kitchin <johnrkitchin@gmail.com>,?"
> "jkitchin@cmu.edu,>"
> "jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu,>"
> "johnrkitchin@gmail.com,?"))))
> (message-goto-to)
> (when (message-field-value "To")
> (message-goto-body)))
>
> ;; append and make local
> (add-hook 'mu4e-compose-mode-hook 'remove-kitchin-emails t)
>
>
> I also built a helm-contacts completion tool that is better than the
> completion I could use out of the box.
>
> Anyway, it took a while to get what I wanted, but I have hardly any
> complaints about it now that it works!
>
> Xebar Saram writes:
>
>> Hi list
>>
>> I know this is a bit off topic but im desperately looking for some advice
>> regarding email through emacs.
>>
>> i have tried a bunch of them over the last month (gnus, mu4e, wanderlust,
>> rmail,mew and maybe other i forget).
>> I had various levels of success with each one to setup (it was never easy)
>> but i ended up sorta settling on mu4e. the problem is that mu4e never
>> managed to work properly for me (headers were not updating when new mail
>> arrived, reply was broken etc) so i had to give up
>>
>> What i want is basically pretty simple. an easy to setup email for emacs,
>> but one that would work tightly with gmail since i do a lot of mail
>> checking on the road via my cellphone.
>>
>> any advise. recommendations or setups that maybe people are willing to
>> share?
>>
>> thx so much in advance
>>
>> Z
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-06 12:43 [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice? Xebar Saram
2015-08-06 12:50 ` Peter Davis
2015-08-06 13:56 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-08-06 14:31 ` John Kitchin
2015-08-06 16:50 ` Titus von der Malsburg [this message]
2015-08-06 17:21 ` Xebar Saram
2015-08-06 20:45 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-06 15:59 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-08-06 23:51 ` Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
2015-08-08 3:38 ` Peter Salazar
2015-08-11 10:04 ` Fabrice Popineau
2015-08-11 12:23 ` Peter Davis
2015-08-11 12:30 ` Fabrice Popineau
2015-08-11 12:38 ` Rasmus
2015-08-11 12:35 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-08-11 13:20 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-11 13:53 ` Scott Randby
2015-08-11 14:16 ` Peter Davis
2015-08-11 14:38 ` Xebar Saram
2015-08-11 14:51 ` Scott Randby
2015-08-12 3:13 ` Peter Salazar
2015-08-12 4:30 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-12 8:34 ` Rasmus
2015-08-12 9:09 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-12 9:35 ` Rasmus
2015-08-12 13:36 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-12 22:42 ` Rasmus
2015-08-13 2:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-11 13:22 ` Matt Lundin
2015-08-15 7:37 ` Bastien Guerry
2015-08-15 12:35 ` Matt Lundin
2015-08-18 16:36 ` Bastien
2015-08-11 14:00 ` Gerald Wildgruber
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