[O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-26 Thread Matt Price
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. 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 t

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-26 Thread Carson Chittom
Matt Price 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. The last time I tried this I used wanderlust, > and I'd be willing to give it a try again but a couple of th

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-26 Thread Tassilo Horn
Carson Chittom writes: >> - fast search and easy-to-manage virtual folders of some kind -- I >> see mu and notmuch are very strong on both these fronts > > I'm looking to set up mairix, which Gnus supports, but I haven't yet. > Mairix itself though just needs mail in Maildir or mbox formats, from

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-26 Thread Carson Chittom
Tassilo Horn writes: > If you talk to an IMAP or Gmane nntp server (remote or a local dovecot), > you can simply hit `G G' on a group to search it without having to > configure anything (in recent Gnus versions). Almost all IMAP servers > index at least to/from/subject for fast searches, and som

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-26 Thread Rasmus
Matt Price 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 aga

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-26 Thread Tassilo Horn
Rasmus writes: >> (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. The links are saved by combining the group and Message-Id of

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-26 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:47:40 -0400, Matt Price wrote: > 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. The last time I tried this I used wanderlust, > and I'd be willing to giv

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-26 Thread Myles English
Matt, >> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:47:40 -0400, Matt Price said: > So, I'm wondering what solutions other org users have settled on. I use gnus, offline imap, dovecot, notmuch, msmtp, bbdb3. And org-mode capture including links to emails works fine. The end result is very good and stable throug

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-26 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Matt Price writes: > - wl causes emacs to freeze up when it checks or sends mail, and can > take quite a long while to complete these operations I offload this by using external programs. My email flow consists of: 1. Fetch my mail from various sources with fetchmail. Usenet articles are

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-26 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Thu, Apr 26 2012, Matt Price wrote: > 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. The last time I tried this I used wanderlust, > and I'd be willing to give it a try again

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-27 Thread Stephen Eglen
A relatively new emacs mailer, mu4e, is worth mentioning: http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html I really like it so far + it has support for org mode links. Stephen

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-27 Thread Eric Schulte
Myles English writes: > Matt, > >>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:47:40 -0400, Matt Price said: > > So, I'm wondering what solutions other org users have settled on. > > I use gnus, offline imap, dovecot, notmuch, msmtp, bbdb3. And org-mode > capture including links to emails works fine. > > The end

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-27 Thread Myles English
Hi Eric, >> On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:34:46 -0400, Eric Schulte said: > Myles English writes: >> I use gnus, offline imap, dovecot, notmuch, msmtp, bbdb3. And >> org-mode capture including links to emails works fine. >> >> The end result is very good and stable through updates Having

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-27 Thread Eric Schulte
Myles English writes: > Hi Eric, > >>> On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:34:46 -0400, Eric Schulte said: > > > Myles English writes: > >> I use gnus, offline imap, dovecot, notmuch, msmtp, bbdb3. And > >> org-mode capture including links to emails works fine. > >> > >> The end result is very goo

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-28 Thread Eric Fraga
Rasmus writes: > Matt Price 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. > I used wl but switched to Gnus. ditto. > >> - wl causes emacs to fr

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-28 Thread Eric Fraga
Eric Schulte writes: > As a long-time user of gnus with imap my only complaints are the > inability to work offline and the relatively poor sorting rules of my > web-mail imap servers. It sounds like dovecot and offline-imap could > solve both of these problems. I used to use offline-imap + dov

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-28 Thread Eric Fraga
Stephen Eglen writes: > A relatively new emacs mailer, mu4e, is worth mentioning: > > http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html Somewhat surreal to bring up this page, look at the second screen shot and see my name on the first line! Not to mention the usual suspects from the org mailing lis

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-28 Thread Rasmus
Eric Schulte writes: > Myles English writes: > >> Matt, >> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:47:40 -0400, Matt Price said: >> > So, I'm wondering what solutions other org users have settled >> > on. >> >> I use gnus, offline imap, dovecot, notmuch, msmtp, bbdb3. And >> org-mode >> capture includi

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-28 Thread Rasmus
Eric Fraga writes: > Rasmus writes: As this is becoming somewhat of a dovecot thread I've got a question: Often, after resuming the computer from standby, say, Gnus looses the connection to Dovecot. I have to press `g' three times it updates mail group and each time I must wait for it to time

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-28 Thread Eric Fraga
Rasmus writes: > Eric Fraga writes: > >> Rasmus writes: > > As this is becoming somewhat of a dovecot thread I've got a question: > > Often, after resuming the computer from standby, say, Gnus looses the > connection to Dovecot. I have to press `g' three times it updates mail > group and each

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-28 Thread RC
Eric Fraga ucl.ac.uk> writes: > > I used to use offline-imap + dovecot when I used wl and things worked > very well indeed. When I moved to gnus, I used the gnus agent which > also now works very well (there was a period of instability a year or > two ago). The gnus agent fully supports offline

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-28 Thread Richard Riley
RC writes: > Eric Fraga ucl.ac.uk> writes: >> >> I used to use offline-imap + dovecot when I used wl and things worked >> very well indeed. When I moved to gnus, I used the gnus agent which >> also now works very well (there was a period of instability a year or >> two ago). The gnus agent fu

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-28 Thread Dirk-Jan C . Binnema
Stephen Eglen writes: > A relatively new emacs mailer, mu4e, is worth mentioning: > > http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html > > I really like it so far + it has support for org mode links. Thanks :) If you're interested, in the guile/examples directory, there's a guile script 'org2mu4e'

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-28 Thread Myles English
Hi Rasmus, >> On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:28:00 +0100, Rasmus said: > Eric Fraga writes: >> Rasmus writes: > As this is becoming somewhat of a dovecot thread I've got a > question: > Often, after resuming the computer from standby, say, Gnus looses > the connection to Dovecot. I hav

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-28 Thread Neil Smithline
On 4/27 08:09 , Stephen Eglen wrote: A relatively new emacs mailer, mu4e, is worth mentioning: http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html I really like it so far + it has support for org mode links. Stephen, I didn't know about mu4e. I've played around with mu in the past and thought it w

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-29 Thread Stephen Eglen
hi Neil > Are the directions at > http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e/Gmail-configuration.html really > all it takes to get this running? If so, I'm definitely going to give it > a whirl. yes, check out that subsection for Gmail, or the earlier part of the manual for other configs. If you

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-29 Thread Bastien
Guys, very nice thread -- I can't wait to have a new computer (mine is a Thinkpad X61... nearly 5 years old!) and play with all this. Also nice to have Dirk on this list! Keep up the good work and let us know about other org/mu[4e] niceties. Cheers, -- Bastien

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-29 Thread Mikkel Kristiansen
On søn 29 apr 2012 02:45:54 CEST, Neil Smithline wrote: > On 4/27 08:09 , Stephen Eglen wrote: > > A relatively new emacs mailer, mu4e, is worth mentioning: > > > > http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html > > > > I really like it so far + it has support for org mode links. > > Stephen, > >

Re: [O] mail integration, advice?

2012-04-30 Thread Richard Riley
Neil Smithline writes: > On 4/27 08:09 , Stephen Eglen wrote: >> A relatively new emacs mailer, mu4e, is worth mentioning: >> >> http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html >> >> I really like it so far + it has support for org mode links. > > Stephen, > > I didn't know about mu4e. I've played a