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.

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
>
>
>