From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: getting email offline in Emacs Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 08:56:21 -0700 Message-ID: <87tw62u9ui.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87mvbvf94p.fsf@gmail.com> <87efx6rhxw.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1491407852 5062 195.159.176.226 (5 Apr 2017 15:57:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 15:57:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 05 17:57:29 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cvnJ6-0008Ea-19 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2017 17:57:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41123 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cvnJC-0002MG-2F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2017 11:57:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45595) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cvnIf-0002Lz-Nf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2017 11:56:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cvnIb-0001ys-RS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2017 11:56:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=36816 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cvnIb-0001yi-L1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2017 11:56:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cvnIQ-00049q-EG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Apr 2017 17:56:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:bHXpHYJM9FrIerfb7rVAtizvkVs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112693 Archived-At: Danny YUE writes: > On 2017-04-05 10:20, Devin Prater wrote: >> Hi all. Now that I've become mostly entrenched into Emacs, I want to get >> away from straight up Imap gnus access. I want my mail to be fetched >> regularly, without me having to "get new gnus" all the time, and I want >> to be able to access that mail while offline. So, any way to do this? I >> can handle editing config files, if that’s what it’ll take. So, I want >> offline mail, with maybe a service checking the server every 5 or 10 >> minutes for new mail, without me having to deal with it once it’s set, a >> little like how Thunderbird does it. > > Hi Devin, > > There are many sample configuration out there but I think you may need > some experiences as references. :-) > > For me, I am using getmail + crontab to fetch my emails. > getmail uses POP3 protocol to download mails to my machine so that I can > visit them offline. > crontab is really handy if you want to do something regularly and > automatically. > > For Emacs side...well, I am using mu4e instead of gnus. > It is responsible to read my local mailbox and display them (i.e. as a > pure MUA). > > Besides I use msmtp to send my email. > > In conclusion, getmail and msmtp handles incoming and outgoing process, > so that I do not have to wait for Emacs to fetch... > > P.S. I have not tried myself, but many people recommend OfflineIMAP > instead of getmail. And often recommend isync instead of offlineimap!