thank so much everyone for your great tips and comments

you gave me more energy to further pursue  gnus and or mu4e

thanks again

Z

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg@posteo.de>
wrote:

>
> 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’t 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 <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>,?"
> >          "John Kitchin <johnrkitchin@gmail.com>,?"
> >          "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
> easy)
> >> 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
>
>