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* Email
* :app email
I want to live in Emacs, but as we all know, living is incomplete without email.
So I prayed to the text editor gods and they (I) answered. Emacs+evil's editing
combined with org-mode for writing emails? Yes please.
It uses ~mu4e~ to read my email, but depends on ~offlineimap~ (to sync my email
via IMAP) and ~mu~ (to index my mail into a format ~mu4e~ can understand).
This module makes Emacs an email client, using ~mu4e~.
#+begin_quote
My config is gmail/gsuite oriented, and since Google has its own opinions on the
IMAP standard, it is unlikely to translate to other hosts.
I want to live in Emacs, but as we all know, living is incomplete without email. So I prayed to the text editor gods and they (I) answered. Emacs+evil's editing combined with org-mode for writing emails? /Yes please./
It uses ~mu4e~ to read my email, but depends on ~offlineimap~ (to sync my email via IMAP) and ~mu~ (to index my mail into a format ~mu4e~ can understand).
WARNING: my config is gmail/gsuite oriented, and since Google has its own opinions on the IMAP standard, it is unlikely to translate to other hosts.
#+end_quote
** Installation
** Install
This module requires:
+ ~offlineimap~ (to sync mail with)
+ ~mu~ (to index your downloaded messages)
*** MacOS
#+BEGIN_SRC sh :tangle (if (doom-system-os 'macos) "yes")
brew install mu --with-emacs
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sudo pacman --noconfirm --needed -S offlineimap mu
#+END_SRC
** Setup
First, you need to set up, download and index your email:
** Dependencies
You need to do the following:
1. Write a ~\~/.offlineimaprc~. Mine can be found [[https://github.com/hlissner/dotfiles/tree/master/shell/%252Bmu][in my dotfiles repository]]. It
is configured to download mail to ~\~/.mail~.
1. Write a ~\~/.offlineimaprc~. Mine can be found [[https://github.com/hlissner/dotfiles/tree/master/shell/%252Bmu][in my dotfiles repository]]. It is configured to download mail to ~\~/.mail~. I use unix pass to securely store my login credentials.
2. Download your email: ~offlineimap -o~ (may take a while)
3. Index it with mu: ~mu index --maildir ~/.mail~
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(mu4e-compose-signature . "---\nHenrik Lissner"))
t)
#+END_SRC