From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Titus von der Malsburg Subject: Re: [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice? Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 09:50:18 -0700 Message-ID: <87d1z01hv9.fsf@posteo.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39948) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNONN-0006vb-Kd for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 12:50:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNONE-0003a0-5t for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 12:50:41 -0400 Received: from mx02.posteo.de ([89.146.194.165]:58636) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNOND-0003XM-Pc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 12:50:32 -0400 In-reply-to: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: John Kitchin Cc: Xebar Saram , org mode --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=E2=80=99t 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 ,?" > "John Kitchin ,?" > "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 eas= y) >> 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 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVw5BLAAoJEK40WfPGE2idhEQH/ApbpUlNZd/a8q9UDuOUnwUj B+2b2Njcs/1Yyh+14fVlCIQlXgXBHlvcccDPJND2y8DKpBTgtU7u79q8Um8YIVrq V3tY4RwjWM6RS/tqZm+CKXrK3lFkDYyW0btndHS1viXgVuvpSZCpmkSgKhH0LUDh OV7iWEx62WMLahMFCR60xwUaxqwETSGwgLO46NYE5PvBmU+gKO0HqFPCKsbN8SFC kNrnlffWt6Cs5j43ZByXQDCKRTdoZfDqY/1mgz+FXistaSQ3cdiFypkBdI5ocLUS JwKmNDVpUGR3Dvz4lVnQsQNHyMsR7yy1yhtVdQxxTvDKzytDzGwdXdNRXHRMoYY= =bKys -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--