Matt Price <address@hidden> 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 again but a couple of things have
discouraged me in the past:
I used wl but switched to Gnus.
- wl causes emacs to freeze up when it checks or sends mail, and can
take quite a long while to complete these operations
I know of no solution to this. You could run a dedicated Gnus process
if it bothers you.
- 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
Arch updates wl often. Latest package is three months old.
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/wanderlust/
- 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.
Message-mode handles txt mails well. There is some org extension for
html mails (although I don't like html mails).
IMAP should be fine. You can run it local if you want. I do
offlineimap + dovecot.
- fast search and easy-to-manage virtual folders of some kind -- I see
mu and notmuch are very strong on both these fronts
notmuch and mu4emacs are probably also easier to set up.
- easy, stable harvesting of email-based data through org-capture
Use bbdb3.
(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.
- 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.
I have tons of list configuration for Gnus. . . But half of it is for
weird stuff such as random signature, random `avatar', several SMTP etc.
- 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.
I have F9 bring up the Gnus Group buffer. G for update. Elegant
auto-fetching of new mails from foreign imap is something I have not
solved yet.