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 have it set up to only update every 20 minutes, which I
like, and I can force it to update when I want, or sometimes I switch to
a browser at times where I need real-time updates. Most of the time I
don't want that though!
I did hack some things to get it more like the gmail experience I am
accustomed to like archiving, and I did hack a function to remove myself
from replies.
(defun remove-kitchin-emails ()
"Removes me from the CC list. I do not need my own emails that I send."
(interactive)
(message-goto-cc)
(save-restriction
(let ((end (point))
(start))
(beginning-of-line)
(setq start (point))
(narrow-to-region start end)
(mapc
(lambda (email-to-remove)
(beginning-of-line)
(when (re-search-forward email-to-remove nil t)
(replace-match "")))
'("John Kitchin <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu>,?"
"John Kitchin <johnrkitc...@gmail.com>,?"
"jkitc...@cmu.edu,>"
"jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu,>"
"johnrkitc...@gmail.com,?"))))
(message-goto-to)
(when (message-field-value "To")
(message-goto-body)))
;; append and make local
(add-hook 'mu4e-compose-mode-hook 'remove-kitchin-emails t)
I also built a helm-contacts completion tool that is better than the
completion I could use out of the box.
Anyway, it took a while to get what I wanted, but I have hardly any
complaints about it now that it works!
Xebar Saram 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 success with each one to setup (it was never easy)
> but i ended up sorta settling on mu4e. the problem is that mu4e never
> managed to work properly for me (headers were not updating when new mail
> arrived, reply was broken etc) so i had to give up
>
> 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?
>
> thx so much in advance
>
> Z
--
Professor John Kitchin
Doherty Hall A207F
Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-268-7803
@johnkitchin
http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
