accessing gmail mails without download them to my disk

accessing gmail mails without download them to my disk

[xeon Mailinglist]

I want to read the gmail mails inside emacs, but I don't want to download them to my computer. What is the best way to do it?

Accessing the gmail web interface in emacs?
With wanderlust?

Re: accessing gmail mails without download them to my disk

[W. Greenhouse]

xeon Mailinglist <xeonmailinglist-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> I want to read the gmail mails inside emacs, but I don't want to
> download them to my computer. What is the best way to do it?
>
> Accessing the gmail web interface in emacs?
> With wanderlust?

Gnus nnimap works well.  This configuration will be an online IMAP
client without local caching:

(setq gnus-select-method
      '(nnimap "imap.gmail.com")
      message-send-mail-function 'message-smtpmail-send-it
      smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
      smtpmail-stream-type 'ssl
      smtpmail-smtp-service 465)

Then try M-x gnus to read mail.

If you want something like a Gmail-style "conversation view," you might
also add:

(setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
      '(gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-date)
      gnus-sort-gathered-threads-function 'gnus-thread-sort-by-number)

(add-hook 'gnus-summary-prepared-hook 'gnus-summary-hide-all-threads)

This will start with threads ordered in the buffer with most recent on
top, and collapsed until you begin to read them.

Read the [Gmail]/All Mail group rather than the INBOX to see your
replies too.

Re: accessing gmail mails without download them to my disk

[Stefan Monnier]

> I want to read the gmail mails inside emacs, but I don't want to download
> them to my computer.  What is the best way to do it?

Of course, any message you look at will have to be downloaded.
Depending on your MUA (and its configuration) the message may be stored
locally to avoid future re-downloads, or it can then forget it, causing
the need to re-download if you want to look at the message again.
And some MUAs download all messages eagerly (i.e. before you even try to
look at them).


        Stefan

Re: accessing gmail mails without download them to my disk

[Jonathan Groll]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:29:16 -0800 (PST), xeon Mailinglist <xeonmailinglist@gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to read the gmail mails inside emacs, but I don't want to download them to my computer. What is the best way to do it?
> 
> Accessing the gmail web interface in emacs?
> With wanderlust?

I read a gmail account with Wanderlust via IMAP and leave the mails on
Google's servers.

I visit the Inbox folder like this:
%inbox:gmailAccountName/clear@imap.gmail.com:993       
 
Where gmailAccountName is the name of the gmail account.

HTH,
Jonathan
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