Matt Price <mopto...@gmail.com> writes: > I'd like to take one more shot at returning to text-based email within > emacs, mostly because I want to be able to integrate mail easily into > my org-mode workflow.
It's worth it. > The last time I tried this I used wanderlust, > and I'd be willing to give it a try again but a couple of things have > discouraged me in the past: I used wl but switched to Gnus. > - wl causes emacs to freeze up when it checks or sends mail, and can > take quite a long while to complete these operations I know of no solution to this. You could run a dedicated Gnus process if it bothers you. > - wl seems to have gone quasi-dormant, with very little activity on > the mailing list and no recent releases; it also relies on two other > packages, FLIM and APEL, with similarly dormant mailing lists Arch updates wl often. Latest package is three months old. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/wanderlust/ > - allow me to continue using Thunderbird as a backup for e.g. images > and highly formatted mails -- thunderbird is currently set up w/ local > copies of IMAP folders for my current mail, plus local archives served > on by dovecot that can be accessed both by thunderbird and by e.g. > wanderlust. Message-mode handles txt mails well. There is some org extension for html mails (although I don't like html mails). IMAP should be fine. You can run it local if you want. I do offlineimap + dovecot. > - fast search and easy-to-manage virtual folders of some kind -- I see > mu and notmuch are very strong on both these fronts notmuch and mu4emacs are probably also easier to set up. > - easy, stable harvesting of email-based data through org-capture Use bbdb3. > (if possible, this should allow me to archive a message and still be > able to find it when I follow an org message link) You can capture gnus mails through org-capture. I don't know how robust the links are. > - would be nice if configuration didn't require TONS of lisp code, a I > am a very slow coder and these kinds of configuration tasks can be > very daunting for me. I have tons of list configuration for Gnus. . . But half of it is for weird stuff such as random signature, random `avatar', several SMTP etc. > - shouldn't slow down my workflow too much -- I should be able to very > quickly check my email then return to an org buffer to continue > writing. I have F9 bring up the Gnus Group buffer. G for update. Elegant auto-fetching of new mails from foreign imap is something I have not solved yet. -- Enought with the bla bla!