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Questions tagged [email]

Email-related questions across the different clients (gnus, mu4e, rmail, etc.)

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Reading and writing email with emacs

How can we use emacs to read and write email? This question is intended to provide a canonical landing point for users wanting to deal with email using emacs. Please post only one package/solution per answer, with as much details as you can.…
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Reading mailing list archives in Emacs?

I sometimes want to read mailing list archives for projects that I'm not subscribed to. There are nice HTML archives online (e.g. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-12/msg00347.html), but I don't enjoy reading mails in the…
user2005
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Using emacs with thunderbird to compose and respond to mail

There is a lot written for using emacs as a full-blown primary email program. I am looking for something with a simple setup so that I can keep Thunderbird as my primary email management program but compose and send email in emacs. Since python can…
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`mu4e-contexts` multiple gmail accounts using incorrect smtp credentials

I'm attempting to set up multiple Gmail accounts using mu4e-context's. I have a lot of the features working except one. I can switch between contexts, update my mail in each account (using offlineimap) and I can send mail. The problem is that I have…
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How to warn before sending email if Subject: is empty

If I hit C-c C-c in message-mode (I use notmuch) in order to send an email I've composed, I want to be warned if the Subject: header is empty. E.g. "Really send without Subject? (yes or no)" When composing new email I fill in the Subject after I…
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Using UTF8 encoding as default when writing emails

When I want to send an email I composed in Emacs, I press C-c C-c and am always presented with such an error message: These default coding systems were tried to encode text in the buffer `2015-02-03_19:08:30_1': (utf-8-unix (302 . 4194243) (303 .…
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Outlook Calendar in org agenda

I would like to integrate the calendar from my outlook into my orgmode agenda. I am looking for a solution with the following features Should be implemented in elisp only, so that I can run this on any system that has emacs Should use Microsoft…
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How to make Emacs check my email and report new mail

I'm using GNUS to read my emails. Is there some way to make it automatically check my mail box and report new mails somehow? Maybe some package exists to do this sort of thing?
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Read and edit Thunderbird's maildir with GNUS

As forums tell it should be possible to use GNUS for reading maildir created by Thunderbird. I did not find, however, any working implementations posted. And in my own experiments I could not make GNUS to list groups (folders in maildir) to…
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attach multiple files from the same directory to an email message?

Q: how can I attach multiple files to an outbound email with a minimum amount of fuss? I'm using mu4e (which reuses message-mode, if that helps) to work with email. I often need to send emails with multiple attachments. mu4e uses mml-attach-file…
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Using ido or helm to auto complete email addresses in mu4e

Is there a way to auto-complete email addresses in the mu4e compose window using Ido or Helm rather than the standard *Completions* buffer?
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mu4e folders for multiple accounts (contexts)

I'm trying to set mu4e to use for both personal and work gmail accounts. I successfully configured offlineimap and fetched the mail. Then I tried setting mu4e, and according documentation: the recommended way to deal with multiple accounts is…
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send mail later in Gnus

I'm trying to find out if there is way to schedule a mail for later delivery in Gnus. I am not trying to just queue a mail to be sent whenever a connection becomes available, but I am looking for a feature to define a date at which a mail is to be…
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Trying to separate Private and Work email using mu4e contexts in emacs

I'm struggling to get mu4e to work with different (private and work) email accounts. The behaviour is different from what I expected, and I am not sure whether this is due to an issue in my configuration or in my expectation :-) Learning how to…
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How to prevent mu4e from checking mail when the internet is down?

Q: how do I prevent mu4e from automatically checking mail when the internet's down? Problem I use mu4e and offlineimap to handle my email. When on a laptop, I have to deal with the fact that I sometimes have spotty wifi connections. offlineimap…
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