From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Loris Bennett" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to set up Emacs as a mail client (with mail saved/filed on an IMAP server) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:52:58 +0100 Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Message-ID: <87ha8t24v9.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390574448 24693 80.91.229.3 (24 Jan 2014 14:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:40:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 24 15:40:56 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W6hwE-00041m-9F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:40:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46937 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6hwD-0005rM-Ri for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 09:40:53 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 68 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de k4z4WDMbvsxsuesRhGrEbQAntT32Ynod/VmEM1QCouFAxB Cancel-Lock: sha1:Mw8YVwzFfsHVc689AfXzkDhQ4IU= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203339 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 09:40:17 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95619 Archived-At: Hi N, nljlistbox2@gmail.com writes: > I've been reading about getting email set up in Emacs for the past > several months, but I haven't yet come upon a satisfactory solution > for me. I have a few questions that I hope someone might answer. > > 1. Gnus: It has often been observed that mail and news are similar > creatures, so that it makes sense to handle mail in a system built for > handling news. Certainly there are similarities. However, when I've > read a news article in Gnus, it disappears. That suits me well > enough. But I don't want the mail in my inbox to disappear once it's > been read. I'd like to be able to see both my read and unread mail in > my inbox and have the two distinguished in some way. Doable? I'm > guessing it is, but the second issue has precluded me looking up how > to do it. This is a common question: http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_398.html#SEC451 However, you will probably end up doing this less often than you might think. > 2. Gnus again: As far as I've been able to ascertain (and of course I > might be mistaken), Gnus does not support IMAP. To be sure it will > download mail from an IMAP server (I have that set up already), but > that is not my use case. I have my inboxes (the contents of which are > retrieved from the outside world by fetchmail) and about twenty-years > worth of filed mail in a local Dovecot IMAP server. I don't want my > mail client (whatever I end up using) to make its own local copy of my > mail -- I want it to allow me to read the mail in my IMAP inboxes, > delete it on the rare occasions that I want to do that, or file it in > other folders on the IMAP server. Did I miss something, or am I > correct in thinking Gnus lacks the ability to interact with an IMAP > server in that way? Gnus does work with IMAP. Look here: http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_208.html > 3. RMAIL: Again, can it interact with IMAP as above? The impression > that I've reached is that RMAIL is adamant about having it's own local > copy of things. I haven't used RMAIL for years, but look here: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Remote-Mailboxes.html#Remote-Mailboxes > 4. Mutt with Emacs as external editor: This is the solution I'm > leaning towards, but I'll be sad if I can't get an all-Emacs solution > working. (After all, I do almost everything else on my computer in > Emacs.) Are there known pitfalls to using Mutt with Emacs? This is probably possible. However, it strikes me as a little bizarre since there are solutions within Emacs > Thank you to anyone with suggestions. > > N. Jackson. Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under construction.