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 17:09:20 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4hgdgan.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87h9o4zyzq.fsf@gmx.us
Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> 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!
>
> Sending messages in Gnus is trival these days. It works out of the box
> when you add a X-Message-SMTP-Method header (and GCC for saving a copy to
> Sent). I use smtp server from GMX, my own mail server and Outlook (I've
> used google mail in the past).
It's not trivial when you live in China :)
I can make it work, between alternate IP addresses and ssh tunnels, but
it involves a lot of cursing and grinding my teeth. In a hostile network
environment any client will face the same problems, but the lack of
threading becomes pretty apparent here.
Someday I will set up my own mail server, when I'm in bed with a broken
leg, maybe. I have so many "broken-leg" projects waiting, I hate to
think of what sort of accident I'd have to be in to get them all
completed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-12 9:09 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
2015-08-12 8:34 ` Rasmus
2015-08-12 9:09 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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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