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 <malsb...@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 <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu>,?" > > "John Kitchin <johnrkitc...@gmail.com>,?" > > "jkitc...@cmu.edu,>" > > "jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu,>" > > "johnrkitc...@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 > >
