Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes: > Peter Salazar <cycleofs...@gmail.com> writes: > >> 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. > > I agree that having email accessible locally is key to making Gnus > usable. All my email is synced to local dovecot server, and Gnus > accesses that -- no lag at all. Sending messages is still a big pain, > though. I send using msmtp, and there's an add-on called msmtp-queue > that would apparently allow Gnus to hand off messages instantly, but > I've never spent the time to get it set up. I sure wish IMAP could > handle both sending and receiving messages!
Sending messages in Gnus is trival these days. It works out of the box when you add a X-Message-SMTP-Method header (and GCC for saving a copy to Sent). I use smtp server from GMX, my own mail server and Outlook (I've used google mail in the past). Rasmus -- It was you, Jezebel, it was you