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 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
Others have given imap solutions -- I'm using POP and the mpop utility works great for this. I have it use `set-process-filter' and `set-process-sentinel' to let me know what it did once it's done. > - fast search and easy-to-manage virtual folders of some kind -- I see > mu and notmuch are very strong on both these fronts Again, for POP -- nnmairix is fast, but I've gotten strange behavior out of the virtual groups it creates, and calling it from gnus is many times slower than using it from the command line. 1.5ยข -- GNU Emacs 24.1.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10) of 2012-04-25 on pellet