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 the past: - wl causes emacs to freeze up when it checks or sends mail, and can take quite a long while to complete these operations - wl seems to have gone quasi-dormant, with very little activity on the mailing list and no recent releases; it also relies on two other packages, FLIM and APEL, with similarly dormant mailing lists
So, I'm wondering what solutions other org users have settled on. My current hopes for this: - allow me to continue using Thunderbird as a backup for e.g. images and highly formatted mails -- thunderbird is currently set up w/ local copies of IMAP folders for my current mail, plus local archives served on by dovecot that can be accessed both by thunderbird and by e.g. wanderlust. - fast search and easy-to-manage virtual folders of some kind -- I see mu and notmuch are very strong on both these fronts - easy, stable harvesting of email-based data through org-capture (if possible, this should allow me to archive a message and still be able to find it when I follow an org message link) - would be nice if configuration didn't require TONS of lisp code, a I am a very slow coder and these kinds of configuration tasks can be very daunting for me. - shouldn't slow down my workflow too much -- I should be able to very quickly check my email then return to an org buffer to continue writing. Thanks very much for your suggestions! best, matt
