Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-18 Thread Bastien
Hi Matt, Matt Lundin m...@imapmail.org writes: Certainly! These are the settings I have: I'm using this now and it works well, thanks a lot! -- Bastien

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-15 Thread Bastien Guerry
Hi Matt, Matt Lundin m...@imapmail.org writes: I've configured gnus to sort subscribed groups automatically by the number of times accessed, with the least read groups falling to the bottom. This is interesting: could you share this bit of configuration? Thanks! -- Bastien

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-15 Thread Matt Lundin
Hi Bastien, Bastien Guerry b...@gnu.org writes: Hi Matt, Matt Lundin m...@imapmail.org writes: I've configured gnus to sort subscribed groups automatically by the number of times accessed, with the least read groups falling to the bottom. This is interesting: could you share this bit of

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-12 Thread Rasmus
Hi, Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: Rasmus ras...@gmx.us writes: Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: It's not trivial when you live in China :) I can make it work, between alternate IP addresses and ssh tunnels, but it involves a lot of cursing and grinding my

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-12 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Rasmus ras...@gmx.us writes: Hi, Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: Rasmus ras...@gmx.us writes: Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: It's not trivial when you live in China :) I can make it work, between alternate IP addresses and ssh tunnels, but it involves

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-12 Thread Rasmus
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

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-12 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Rasmus ras...@gmx.us writes: 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

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-12 Thread Rasmus
Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: It's not trivial when you live in China :) I can make it work, between alternate IP addresses and ssh tunnels, but it involves a lot of cursing and grinding my teeth. In a hostile network environment any client will face the same problems, but

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-12 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Rasmus ras...@gmx.us writes: Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: It's not trivial when you live in China :) I can make it work, between alternate IP addresses and ssh tunnels, but it involves a lot of cursing and grinding my teeth. In a hostile network environment any client

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-11 Thread Fabrice Popineau
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

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-11 Thread Rasmus
Fabrice Popineau fabrice.popin...@supelec.fr writes: 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. So you are running 2 instances

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-11 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 02:35:57PM +0200, Nicolas Richard wrote: Peter Davis p...@pfdstudio.com writes: 2) I need a decent editor for replies. I have not found a browser-based client that has this. Firefox has an extension, https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/its-all-text/,

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-11 Thread Peter Davis
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

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-11 Thread Nicolas Richard
Peter Davis p...@pfdstudio.com writes: 2) I need a decent editor for replies. I have not found a browser-based client that has this. Firefox has an extension, https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/its-all-text/, which allows you to edit any text in your favourite editor (aka emacs) with

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-11 Thread Fabrice Popineau
2015-08-11 14:23 GMT+02:00 Peter Davis p...@pfdstudio.com: 2) I need a decent editor for replies. I have not found a browser-based client that has this. Agreed. The biggest problem arises when you need to format code. There is an edit with emacs extension for chrome which is working quite

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-11 Thread Gerald Wildgruber
Hi, I'm very happy with mu4e! http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html https://github.com/djcb/mu Its speed and ease in searching are unparalleled: the results of searches in tens of thousands of mails is immediate. I like its concepts of generating folders only virtually through searches:

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-11 Thread Peter Davis
Scott Randby sran...@gmail.com writes: On 08/11/2015 08:23 AM, Peter Davis wrote: 2) I need a decent editor for replies. I have not found a browser-based client that has this. For me, setting up any of the Emacs email clients to work properly with my various email tasks is a daunting task.

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-11 Thread Xebar Saram
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Peter Davis p...@pfdstudio.com wrote: spent years (literally) playing with gnus and giving up, only to be drawn back to it weeks, months or years later to try again. Seriously, it was only after years of this that I managed to get things working well enough

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-11 Thread Scott Randby
On 08/11/2015 10:16 AM, Peter Davis wrote: One of the persistent frustrations for me with Thunderbird is that it still, even years after the problem was reported, can't get the unread counts correct for various folders all the time. It frequently shows unread counts for folders that have no

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-11 Thread Scott Randby
On 08/11/2015 08:23 AM, Peter Davis wrote: 2) I need a decent editor for replies. I have not found a browser-based client that has this. For me, setting up any of the Emacs email clients to work properly with my various email tasks is a daunting task. This especially true for my work email

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-11 Thread Matt Lundin
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

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-11 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
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

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-11 Thread Peter Salazar
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.

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-07 Thread Peter Salazar
I also just installed notmuch, in addition to mu4e, and so far I quite like notmuch. The interface so far is a little more intuitive (with mu4e, for instance, I kept getting tripped up hitting r to reply to a message and finding that it's bound to something else). I did get offlineimap working,

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-06 Thread John Kitchin
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

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-06 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 08:21:15PM +0300, Xebar Saram wrote: thank so much everyone for your great tips and comments you gave me more energy to further pursue gnus and or mu4e There is also notmuch. In fact, notmuch seems to have an edge over mu4e when it comes to performance, at least

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-06 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
You have received several great answers already, but my 2 cents here. I've used mu4e with offlineimap[1] for about three years now, and I am reasonably happy with it. I particularly like the search capabilities (which I now often complement with helm-mu). Setting it up was not particularly hard

[O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-06 Thread Xebar Saram
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

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-06 Thread Peter Davis
Xebar Saram zelt...@gmail.com 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

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-06 Thread Titus von der Malsburg
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

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-06 Thread Xebar Saram
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

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-06 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 6 Aug 2015 at 15:43, Xebar Saram wrote: 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 use gnus

Re: [O] [OFF TOPIC] almost giving up on emacs email..looking for advice?

2015-08-06 Thread Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
Xebar Saram writes: 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? The setup