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==== Emacs And Email ==== | ==== Emacs And Email ==== | ||
- | current setup (as of March 2016) | + | current setup (as of March 2016 - [[/ |
* mail delivery - '' | * mail delivery - '' | ||
- | * mail reading/ | + | * mail reading/ |
- | * sending - from within '' | + | * sending - from within '' |
+ | some notes... | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====overview==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | i'm taking some time to migrate from Thunderbird to mu4e as primary email interface (with potential benefits of an increase in intertwingularity and serendipity). A psuedo-iterative routine has developed over the years, roughly as follows | ||
+ | |||
+ | * get mail from server (manually run '' | ||
+ | * filter mail (Thunderbird connects to local IMAP server, runs mail filters (automatically) sorting messages into maildirs (mailing lists -> archive, sysadmin, spam, etc), manual filter of messages in INBOX (single keys as defined with [[https:// | ||
+ | * read messages in INBOX (and filter/ | ||
+ | * if message requires a response, either mark as ' | ||
+ | * if there is time, read through messages in ' | ||
+ | * repeat erratically | ||
+ | |||
+ | finding previous correspondence, | ||
+ | * use narrowing search by ' | ||
+ | * mailing list traffic which is ' | ||
+ | |||
+ | current folder/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====mail delivery==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | using '' | ||
+ | |||
+ | configs | ||
+ | |||
+ | '' | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | [retriever] | ||
+ | type = SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever | ||
+ | server = example.com | ||
+ | username = xxxxxxx | ||
+ | password = xxxxxxx | ||
+ | |||
+ | [destination] | ||
+ | type = MDA_external | ||
+ | path = / | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | '' | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | # filtering with maildrop | ||
+ | |||
+ | DEFAULT=" | ||
+ | MAILDIR=" | ||
+ | logfile " | ||
+ | |||
+ | # archive list messages | ||
+ | if (/ | ||
+ | to $MAILDIR/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | # sysadmin for the sysadmin | ||
+ | if (/ | ||
+ | to $MAILDIR/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | # [etc...] | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ====mail reading, writing and referencing==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * mu4e manual http:// | ||
+ | * still to sort out | ||
+ | * templates (e.g mindrot) | ||
+ | * clearer org-mu4e integration | ||
+ | * images in html mail (c.f. w3m, eww/shr, html2text) | ||
+ | * refiling to specified targets (e.g. ' | ||
+ | * searches, constrained searches, searches as actions | ||
+ | * flow | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====mail sending==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | < | ||
+ | (setq | ||
+ | message-send-mail-function ' | ||
+ | smtpmail-stream-type 'ssl | ||
+ | smtpmail-default-smtp-server " | ||
+ | smtpmail-smtp-server " | ||
+ | smtpmail-smtp-service 465 | ||
+ | ) | ||
+ | </ |