Re: mail integration, advice?

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb.bulk@gmail.com>]

Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> A relatively new emacs mailer, mu4e, is worth mentioning:
>
> http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html
>
> I really like it so far + it has support for org mode links.

Thanks :)

If you're interested, in the guile/examples directory, there's a guile
script 'org2mu4e' that turns an arbitrary query into an org-mode file.

I.e., I am using this (from cron)

  org2mu4e --tag=mu4e "maildir:/todo" > /home/djcb/Documents/org/mu4e.org

where '/todo' is my folder of mails I need to do something with (think
'NextAction' in GTD terms).
  
I use it to make a block agenda (i.e., `org-agenda-custom-commands');
this gives me a list of my agenda for today, my todo list, e-mail that
require some action, and a list of co

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ("x" "Overview for today"
       ( (agenda ""
	  ((org-agenda-ndays 1)))
	 (todo "TODO"
	   ((org-agenda-overriding-header "Tasks")
	     (org-agenda-todo-ignore-timestamp 1)
	     (org-agenda-todo-ignore-scheduled t)))
	 (tags "+mu4e"
	   ((org-agenda-overriding-header "E-mail")
             ;; ---> this is the mu/guile generated org-file                             
	     (org-agenda-files '("/home/djcb/Documents/org/mu4e.org"))
	     (org-agenda-filter-preset nil)))))
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which gives me something like the below, a nice overview of the things
to work on. The e-mail entries links to the actual messages in mu4e.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Day-agenda (W17):
Saturday   28 April 2012
  misc:       Sched.13x:  APPT Get haircut
  weekly:     Sched. 1x:  TODO Weekly Review [Link]
  birthday:   Kurt Gödel (106 years ago)

===========================================================================
Tasks
  task:       TODO [#A] Fix bicycle                                      
  task:       TODO [#B] get rid of old monitor                           
  task:       TODO [#C] visit dentist                                    

===========================================================================
E-mail
  mu4e:       "Can you endorse me?"                                :mu4e::
  mu4e:       "Re: hi Dirk!"                                       :mu4e::
  mu4e:       "Hi!"                                                :mu4e::

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Best wishes,
Dirk.

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