From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kitchin Subject: Re: [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice? Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 10:31:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49284) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNMCg-00069U-0a for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 10:31:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNMCb-0005ao-8z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 10:31:29 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-x22f.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::22f]:33456) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNMCb-0005ai-52 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 10:31:25 -0400 Received: by qkdg63 with SMTP id g63so26777838qkd.0 for ; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 07:31:24 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Xebar Saram Cc: org mode 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 ,?" "John Kitchin ,?" "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 -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu