Like Fabrice, I also still process my email using the Gmail web interface. The only reason I want email within Emacs is so I can compose replies in a proper editor with all my keybindings. I tried Chrome's Edit with Emacs, but it loses line breaks when it sends the output from Emacs back to Gmail. So I prefer to write replies within Emacs.
Since I only need a small fraction of my emails to go through Emacs, I set up mbsync to pull only my starred messages: Channel gmail-starred Master :gmail-remote:"[Gmail]/Starred" Slave :gmail-local:starred Create Both Expunge Both SyncState * If this is of interest to you I can share my setup. On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Peter Davis <p...@pfdstudio.com> wrote: > Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popin...@supelec.fr> writes: > > > On this thread, I will report quite a different user experience. > > I have been a long time user of emacs and Gnus (Emacs since 1987). > > I have been using (ding) Gnus under Windows NT in the late 90's and up > > to about 2010. > > > > But now, I process my mail using the GMail browser interface. > > The reasons are mostly due to : > > - emacs is slow, chrome displays email more precisely and more quickly > > - emacs is not multi-threaded, hence it may get stuck processing > > stuff. > > Using the browser to process mail allows me not to be disturbed when > > I'm writing documents or programming using Emacs. > > > > I'll keep and eye on the solutions that have been reported here > > though. > > Interesting. I use a variety of email clients, mainly browser-based ones > (GMail, Fastmail), Thunderbird, and gnus. I keep gnus in > the arsenal for three main reasons: > > 1) I can do everything quickly without having to move my hands from the > keyboard. If there isn't already a shortcut for what I want, > I can add one. > > 2) I need a decent editor for replies. I have not found a browser-based > client that has this. > > 3) To bring this somewhat back on topic, I've recently discovered org > capture, and I love the fact that I can capture a note with a > link to a specific email message. > > That last feature alone is reason enough for me. FWIW, I'm on a Mac, and > I generally use Gnu emacs for editing, programming, etc., > and use Aquamacs for running gnus. This avoids any latency problems, etc. > > -pd > > >
