From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com>
Cc: org mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 10:31:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2io8sh4jq.fsf@andrew.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOQHXPrMVavq3oKKsNW+rBsz5WRBJTqeD=K1udBVUPwEnc=g4g@mail.gmail.com>
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
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Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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@johnkitchin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-06 14:31 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 [this message]
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
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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