From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 12:30:04 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pp2tgmcz.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAE+_6TzoH2tVQXFDZjUsvLmqV6LM7EpJCMf17rYCKVTyLp750Q@mail.gmail.com
Peter Salazar <cycleofsong@gmail.com> writes:
> Like Fabrice, I also still process my email using the Gmail web
> interface. The only reason I want email within Emacs is so I can
> compose replies in a proper editor with all my keybindings. I tried
> Chrome's Edit with Emacs, but it loses line breaks when it sends the
> output from Emacs back to Gmail. So I prefer to write replies within
> Emacs.
>
> Since I only need a small fraction of my emails to go through Emacs, I
> set up mbsync to pull only my starred messages:
>
> Channel gmail-starred
> Master :gmail-remote:"[Gmail]/Starred"
> Slave :gmail-local:starred
> Create Both
> Expunge Both
> SyncState *
>
> If this is of interest to you I can share my setup.
I agree that having email accessible locally is key to making Gnus
usable. All my email is synced to local dovecot server, and Gnus
accesses that -- no lag at all. Sending messages is still a big pain,
though. I send using msmtp, and there's an add-on called msmtp-queue
that would apparently allow Gnus to hand off messages instantly, but
I've never spent the time to get it set up. I sure wish IMAP could
handle both sending and receiving messages!
E
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@supelec.fr> writes:
>
> > On this thread, I will report quite a different user experience.
> > I have been a long time user of emacs and Gnus (Emacs since
> 1987).
> > I have been using (ding) Gnus under Windows NT in the late 90's
> and up
> > to about 2010.
> >
> > But now, I process my mail using the GMail browser interface.
> > The reasons are mostly due to :
> > - emacs is slow, chrome displays email more precisely and more
> quickly
> > - emacs is not multi-threaded, hence it may get stuck processing
> > stuff.
> > Using the browser to process mail allows me not to be disturbed
> when
> > I'm writing documents or programming using Emacs.
> >
> > I'll keep and eye on the solutions that have been reported here
> > though.
>
> Interesting. I use a variety of email clients, mainly
> browser-based ones (GMail, Fastmail), Thunderbird, and gnus. I
> keep gnus in
> the arsenal for three main reasons:
>
> 1) I can do everything quickly without having to move my hands
> from the keyboard. If there isn't already a shortcut for what I
> want,
> I can add one.
>
> 2) I need a decent editor for replies. I have not found a
> browser-based client that has this.
>
> 3) To bring this somewhat back on topic, I've recently discovered
> org capture, and I love the fact that I can capture a note with a
> link to a specific email message.
>
> That last feature alone is reason enough for me. FWIW, I'm on a
> Mac, and I generally use Gnu emacs for editing, programming, etc.,
> and use Aquamacs for running gnus. This avoids any latency
> problems, etc.
>
> -pd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-12 4:30 UTC|newest]
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
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 [this message]
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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