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From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
To: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: mail integration, advice?
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:28:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ipgm1mqk.fsf@pank.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN_Dec-1Ju_G21VRLR=Rmcx2zCD23vTB4_gNgCfxc2y7j8bHsQ@mail.gmail.com> (Matt Price's message of "Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:47:40 -0400")

Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:

> I'd like to take one more shot at returning to text-based email within
> emacs, mostly because I want to be able to integrate mail easily into
> my org-mode workflow.  

It's worth it. 

> The last time I tried this I used wanderlust,
> and I'd be willing to give it a try again but a couple of things have
> discouraged me in the past:

I used wl but switched to Gnus. 

> - wl causes emacs to freeze up when it checks or sends mail, and can
> take quite a long while to complete these operations

I know of no solution to this.  You could run a dedicated Gnus process
if it bothers you.

> - wl seems to have gone quasi-dormant, with very little activity on
> the mailing list and no recent releases; it also relies on two other
> packages, FLIM and APEL, with similarly dormant mailing lists

Arch updates wl often.  Latest package is three months old.

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/wanderlust/

> - allow me to continue using Thunderbird as a backup for e.g. images
> and highly formatted mails -- thunderbird is currently set up w/ local
> copies of IMAP folders for my current mail, plus local archives served
> on by dovecot that can be accessed both by thunderbird and by e.g.
> wanderlust.

Message-mode handles txt mails well.  There is some org extension for
html mails (although I don't like html mails).

IMAP should be fine.  You can run it local if you want.  I do
offlineimap + dovecot. 

> - fast search and easy-to-manage virtual folders of some kind -- I see
> mu and notmuch are very strong on both these fronts

notmuch and mu4emacs are probably also easier to set up.

> - easy, stable harvesting of email-based data through org-capture

Use bbdb3.

>  (if possible, this should allow me to archive a message and still be
> able to find it when I follow an org message link)

You can capture gnus mails through org-capture.  I don't know how robust
the links are.

> - would be nice if configuration didn't require TONS of lisp code, a I
> am a very slow coder and these kinds of configuration tasks can be
> very daunting for me.

I have tons of list configuration for Gnus. . .  But half of it is for
weird stuff such as random signature, random `avatar', several SMTP etc.

> - shouldn't slow down my workflow too much -- I should be able to very
> quickly check my email then return to an org buffer to continue
> writing.

I have F9 bring up the Gnus Group buffer.  G for update.  Elegant
auto-fetching of new mails from foreign imap is something I have not
solved yet. 

-- 
Enought with the bla bla!

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-26 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-26 13:47 mail integration, advice? Matt Price
2012-04-26 14:33 ` Carson Chittom
2012-04-26 15:38   ` Tassilo Horn
2012-04-26 16:06     ` Carson Chittom
2012-04-26 16:28 ` Rasmus [this message]
2012-04-26 17:23   ` Tassilo Horn
2012-04-28  8:25   ` Eric Fraga
2012-04-28 12:28     ` Rasmus
2012-04-28 14:59       ` Eric Fraga
2012-04-28 23:49       ` Myles English
2012-04-29  1:00   ` Neil Smithline
2012-04-26 20:03 ` Florian Friesdorf
2012-04-26 21:26 ` Myles English
2012-04-27 13:34   ` Eric Schulte
2012-04-27 20:08     ` Myles English
2012-04-27 18:16       ` Eric Schulte
2012-04-28  8:29     ` Eric Fraga
2012-04-28 15:51       ` RC
2012-04-28 16:54         ` Richard Riley
2012-04-28 11:46     ` Rasmus
2012-04-28 22:45       ` [OT] " Eric Schulte
2012-04-26 22:22 ` Charles Philip Chan
2012-04-27  4:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-04-27 12:09 ` Stephen Eglen
2012-04-28  8:35   ` Eric Fraga
2012-04-28 17:44   ` Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2012-04-29  0:45   ` Neil Smithline
2012-04-29  9:00     ` Stephen Eglen
2012-04-29  9:41       ` Bastien
2012-04-29 18:41     ` Mikkel Kristiansen
2012-04-30 10:28     ` Richard Riley

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