From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Halliday Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: tutorial for rmail and IMAP Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 06:01:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9238b899-1a7a-4243-a536-3f96a10eae16@googlegroups.com> References: (message from James Freer on Sat, 26 Apr 2014 06:34:19 +0100)> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1398517528 12043 80.91.229.3 (26 Apr 2014 13:05:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 13:05:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 26 15:05:24 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 1We2IF-00045z-3C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2014 15:05:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33894 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1We2IE-00021A-5a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2014 09:05:22 -0400 X-Received: by 10.182.4.76 with SMTP id i12mr7300467obi.33.1398517284982; Sat, 26 Apr 2014 06:01:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.100.227 with SMTP id s90mr474qge.24.1398517284951; Sat, 26 Apr 2014 06:01:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!c1no3942653igq.0!news-out.google.com!dz10ni22607qab.1!nntp.google.com!ih12no122329qab.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=109.157.20.237; posting-account=kRukCAoAAAANs-vsVh9dFwo5kp5pwnPz Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 109.157.20.237 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 13:01:24 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205114 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:97380 Archived-At: On Saturday, 26 April 2014 10:40:22 UTC+1, Robert Thorpe wrote: > There are limitations though. Google describe them here: > https://support.google.com/a/answer/1071518?hl=en > https://support.google.com/a/answer/2751577 > > You may hit them if you configure Emacs tools in certain ways. I don't think this will be a problem for me, as I don't get that much mail (although the archive is large and will take some time on first use). I gave up trying to use movemail for IMAP access as it just doesn't seem to work at all for me, even on the command line. Instead, I'm investigating using offlineimap which has created me a bunch of Maildir folders under ~/Mail. This setup means that I can send mail, and I can use M-x google-contacts to look up my contact list (I've not yet integrated it with M-x m). However, I still can't get rmail to see the Maildir folders. I keep most of my config here https://github.com/fommil/unix I'd really appreciate it if an experienced Maildir rmail user could point out what I am doing wrong. Incidentally, from reading the documentation it would appear that rmail doesn't really support mail folders or browsing of email. Is that correct? If so, I don't think it's going to work for me. I'm really looking for a simple mail client that allows me to search mail, browse folders, and "tag" or "untag" messages (which is how gmail moves mails between folders). Much as how this person does things: http://chrisdone.com/posts/emacs-mail I'm going to experiment with the notmuch client and I might give gnus another try. Thanks all so far, I've not given up on rmail but I'd really like to know if it is worth pursuing or if notmuch is a better fit for my needs.