Re: OSX Mail app → Emacs ?

[Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>]

On Sat, Jun 03 2017, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> Before moving to Mac, and before UTF-8 was widely used, I was 
> using a Debian machine with Mutt. So I had a setting for French 
> mails, and another setting for Japanese mails, English mails 
> were handled in either setting. I had fetchmail to get my pop 
> mail and procmail for the filtering. It was a bit complex but I 
> managed. That was 20 years ago. I hope things have evolved since 
> then :)

It should definitely be possible to handle mail in different 
languages in the same environment nowadays. :-)

> What I need though beyond a retrieval/display/sending system, is 
> a way to access the selected mail from the OS side. I have a 
> workflow that involves getting the selected mail, saving it 
> separately and its attachments too, marking it with a given tag 
> etc.
>
> In the Emacs based system, I'd need to have a variable that 
> points at that file, maybe a variable that points at its 
> attachments, a way to "tag" the mail (I have half a dozen 
> different tags), and I guess that's it for now...

I can't tell whether that work flow can be copied directly into 
Emacs, but it sounds like you might benefit from integrating your 
mail with Org. Mu4e allows you to create Org links to specific 
messages, which you can then use in capture templates or insert 
directly into an Org buffer. I suspect similar functionality 
exists for Gnus.

IIUC both mu4e and notmuch also support `X-Label:' headers, which 
you may be able to use for tagging. I don't know the details 
though, so you'd have to Google that a bit. But if you integrate 
Org into your mail work flow, you may be able to forego saving and 
tagging email, and just do all the tagging in your Org file.

HTH


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Joost Kremers
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