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@csepp Here's a little thing I made to check for message body, subject line, and attachments. Works in message-mode, tested in #mu4e, should work under Gnus and others...?

https://codeberg.org/jamesendreshowell/gists/src/branch/master/jeh-message-lint.el

#emacslisp #emacs

@csepp Here's a little thing I made to check for message body, subject line, and attachments. Works in message-mode, tested in #mu4e, should work under Gnus and others...?

https://codeberg.org/jamesendreshowell/gists/src/branch/master/jeh-message-lint.el

#emacslisp #emacs

@csepp Here's a little thing I made to check for message body, subject line, and attachments. Works in message-mode, tested in #mu4e, should work under Gnus and others...?

https://codeberg.org/jamesendreshowell/gists/src/branch/master/jeh-message-lint.el

#emacslisp #emacs

@csepp Here's a little thing I made to check for message body, subject line, and attachments. Works in message-mode, tested in #mu4e, should work under Gnus and others...?

https://codeberg.org/jamesendreshowell/gists/src/branch/master/jeh-message-lint.el

#emacslisp #emacs

@csepp Here's a little thing I made to check for message body, subject line, and attachments. Works in message-mode, tested in #mu4e, should work under Gnus and others...?

https://codeberg.org/jamesendreshowell/gists/src/branch/master/jeh-message-lint.el

#emacslisp #emacs

@randyridenour @jameshowell @greg @pymander No kidding! It took me forever to get the #O365 auth flow worked out, but #pizauth worked wonders with #mu4e.

Granted, I don't use email with or via #emacs, as I don't yet quite trust I won't wind up deleting everything on the server side. Plus, I have not yet sorted out the whole "everybody in the organization uses outlook calendar".

@randyridenour @jameshowell @greg @pymander No kidding! It took me forever to get the #O365 auth flow worked out, but #pizauth worked wonders with #mu4e.

Granted, I don't use email with or via #emacs, as I don't yet quite trust I won't wind up deleting everything on the server side. Plus, I have not yet sorted out the whole "everybody in the organization uses outlook calendar".

@randyridenour @jameshowell @greg @pymander No kidding! It took me forever to get the #O365 auth flow worked out, but #pizauth worked wonders with #mu4e.

Granted, I don't use email with or via #emacs, as I don't yet quite trust I won't wind up deleting everything on the server side. Plus, I have not yet sorted out the whole "everybody in the organization uses outlook calendar".

@randyridenour @jameshowell @greg @pymander No kidding! It took me forever to get the #O365 auth flow worked out, but #pizauth worked wonders with #mu4e.

Granted, I don't use email with or via #emacs, as I don't yet quite trust I won't wind up deleting everything on the server side. Plus, I have not yet sorted out the whole "everybody in the organization uses outlook calendar".

@randyridenour @jameshowell @greg @pymander No kidding! It took me forever to get the #O365 auth flow worked out, but #pizauth worked wonders with #mu4e.

Granted, I don't use email with or via #emacs, as I don't yet quite trust I won't wind up deleting everything on the server side. Plus, I have not yet sorted out the whole "everybody in the organization uses outlook calendar".

NERD DAD FRIDAY NIGHT WITH @greg

If I'm honest, there's a bit of faffing around to get #mu4e configured (see footnote¹). But golly, it sure is worth it.

Just being able to compose emails natively in #Emacs is very OHHHHHHhhhhh **THAT** FEELS BETTER

and then being able to capture Org tasks that link to messages is very UNLIMITED POWER!!!! (see figure)

and then over the next couple years gradually smoothing and polishing your email workflow with little customizations just exactly for little old you is very [wildebeest-levitating-in-blissful-meditation]

If I were to presume to provide advice it would be: consider it a gradual transition, and resolve to savor the process and enjoy each incremental improvement.

___
¹There's a separate binary, which requires a separate quirky compile-from-source installation and configuration. Like most Emacs mail clients, it relies on mbsync to sync local copies with your IMAP server. And then there are countless quirks in its UI, endlessly customizable in the good/bad way to which we are all accustomed.

@pymander

Friday night watching the Phillies, drinking 🍷 and setting up #mu4e in #emacs pushed over the edge by @pymander and @jameshowell

Actually surprised I've never gone down this rabbit hole despite using emacs for decades.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@pymander/116381801119625280

Amen, brother! In #mu4e under #Emacs "The ability to write custom code to both process and create email is extremely powerful and a great time saver."

UPDATED BLOG POST: Finally tracked down and fixed a little bug in "Custom sorting of mu4e headers"

https://jamesendreshowell.com/2026-01-08-custom-sorting-of-mu4e-headers.html

#emacs #mu4e #emacslisp

@zyd #emacs #mu4e

(setopt shr-use-colors nil)

THIS SETTING COMPLETELY FIXES what has been by far my biggest annoyance with mu4e. Namely the ghastly clash of awful foreground and background colors in messages that can only be rendered as HTML.

Thanks to Wouter Groeneveld for this tip and many other improvements to mu4e!

https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/01/customizing-the-emacs-email-experience-with-mu4e/

#emacs #mu4e #html #email

Re: #Emacs for #ADHD

@marlinz's "Constantly fighting for structure" includes "constantly fighting against friction, because the slightest friction can become paralyzing, especially additively."

Conversely, removing distractions becomes a long-term exercise in continuous subtraction. Removing UI elements until only the essential is visible. Removing steps in workflows. Paradoxically, ADDING steps (single keystrokes) to workflows in order to reveal options in steps rather than presenting all the choices. Each reduction is tiny, but the cumulative effect—over years—is a huge reduction in stress and a huge increase in productivity throughout the day.

Much more of the day in focus. Much more of the day in flow.

For someone else's brain, context switching between a bunch of desktop apps might feel like the same cognitive burden as switching between #Emacs buffers. But for me, #OrgMode, #mu4e, and #magit have not just changed how I work.

They allow me to control how I work, with results that have been a binary, qualitative improvement.

After I gave up on #mu4e a couple of weeks ago, I tried setting it up again. I still reach to MailMate from time to time but all in all it seems to work. I also have working xbar-plugins for mail-counts in the menu-bar and notifications with terminal-notifier now on #macOS #emacs

@tmalsburg @devalot

#mu4e #orgmode #emacs

I wonder whether it is possible to use the same #email folders that #Thunderbird (or other email clients) uses mapped for #mu4e as well? I think this would help me transition. It would be helpful to have a function that produces mu4e config out of Thunderbird's.

Gathering my thoughts for Emacs Carnival.

#Emacs ✉️

@mms I filled the bug in the FreeBSD bugtracker about this situation with emacs and mu packages: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=292576

Hope it helps :-)

#FreeBSD #Emacs #mu #mu4e

Usually i am pretty amazed how much time i save while configuring my systems with NixOS/HomeManager. But this time i am trying to set up mbsync/mu/mu4e stack and i think some options are scattered all over.

I got a basic setup running now, but where do i put for example the inbox path if it differs from defaults?

#NixOS #HomeManager #Emacs #mu4e #MBSync

#EMails mit #GNU #Emacs und #mu4e

Wie man aus GNU Emacs einen alltagstauglichen E-Mail-Client macht.
e-mails mit gnu emacs und mu4e

In der heutigen Zeit ist, wie bekannt ist, die Unabhängigkeit von US-amerikanischen E-Mail-Anbietern gar keine so schlechte Idee. Noch besser ist es natürlich, wenn man nicht nur beim Server, sondern auch beim Client maximale Freiheiten hat. Wie gut, dass es GNU Emacs gibt.

https://gnulinux.ch/e-mails-mit-gnu-emacs-und-mu4e

RE: https://fediscience.org/@jameshowell/115028024955832856

First week of classes, highest volume of email biannually, no big deal, thanks to #emacs and #mu4e

Don't hate me because I am efficient

NEW BLOG POST: Custom sorting of mu4e headers

I love mu4e for dealing with email under Emacs: with a little Emacs Lisp you can make it do email how you want to do email.

https://jamesendreshowell.com/2026-01-08-custom-sorting-of-mu4e-headers.html

#emacs #mu4e #emacslisp

Ah yes, the eternal quest to achieve #email #zen through the arcane rites of #Emacs and #Mu4e. 📧✨ Spoiler alert: the author ends up with emails scattered like confetti across the #digital void, but at least they had a "learning #experience." 🙃 How riveting!
https://eamonnsullivan.co.uk/posts-output/email-setup/2025-12-3-putting-email-in-its-place/ #learning #chaos #HackerNews #ngated

Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e

https://eamonnsullivan.co.uk/posts-output/email-setup/2025-12-3-putting-email-in-its-place/

#HackerNews #Emacs #Mu4e #Email #Productivity #Workflow

For the first time in many years, I have less than 10 unread emails. 🎉

When I moved to #mu4e seven months ago, I was at 20,000!
https://toot.aquilenet.fr/@civodul/114313643178812888

Hey #Emacs folks of the Fediverse,

The “Accept” and “Decline” buttons in article mode for ‘text/calendar’ MIME parts are great but #Gnus-specific and do no work with #mu4e: ‘gnus-icalendar-send-buffer-by-mail’ assumes the existence of a ‘*Summary*’ buffer.

Any known solution to this?

I’ve been a happy #mu4e user for several months and even happier now: I had to do some batch processing over emails I got and doing that with the #Guile interface was a breeze.

I've been installing on a fresh computer this week.
For some reason I decided to install #mu4e on #emacs last night. I don't know what I was thinking.
Mu4e is famous for its horrible install experience.

I finally hit a last straw. I had two choices, find a better way or switch to #notmuch. I found a better way, but I might still switch just on principle. Mu4e has been a pain for almost 10 years. Seems like decades.

I wrote a makefile and a bit of elisp. I called it mu4e.
I hope it relieves some pain for all mu4e users everywhere.

https://codeberg.org/ZeniesQis/mu4e

After >6 months of struggles, thanks to the holidays and to #emacs incredible time management options, I managed to reach this achievement again: #zeroinbox !!! 😅

#emacs, #org, #mu4e

@onokoto Of course, I use it completely #offline with fdm/procmail and msmtp. Internet access is necessary only to send and receive e-mails.

To receive e-mails I use script: https://github.com/eugeneandrienko/dotfiles/blob/bd385392be04c8b077873c6fc55e95e15ed7bb78/bin/.bin/get_mail.sh — which called from #mu4e with this options: https://github.com/eugeneandrienko/dotfiles/blob/bd385392be04c8b077873c6fc55e95e15ed7bb78/utils/emacs/.emacs.d/rc-mu4e.el#L20

#fdm configuration (all received e-mails first sent to maildrop, which puts it to proper maildirs): https://github.com/eugeneandrienko/dotfiles/blob/bd385392be04c8b077873c6fc55e95e15ed7bb78/utils/mail/.fdm.conf.

#msmtp configuration: https://github.com/eugeneandrienko/dotfiles/blob/bd385392be04c8b077873c6fc55e95e15ed7bb78/utils/mail/.msmtprc

E-mail accounts passwords stored in ~/.netrc file.

@onokoto Of course, I use it completely #offline with fdm/procmail and msmtp. Internet access is necessary only to send and receive e-mails.

To receive e-mails I use script: https://github.com/eugeneandrienko/dotfiles/blob/bd385392be04c8b077873c6fc55e95e15ed7bb78/bin/.bin/get_mail.sh — which called from #mu4e with this options: https://github.com/eugeneandrienko/dotfiles/blob/bd385392be04c8b077873c6fc55e95e15ed7bb78/utils/emacs/.emacs.d/rc-mu4e.el#L20

#fdm configuration (all received e-mails first sent to maildrop, which puts it to proper maildirs): https://github.com/eugeneandrienko/dotfiles/blob/bd385392be04c8b077873c6fc55e95e15ed7bb78/utils/mail/.fdm.conf.

#msmtp configuration: https://github.com/eugeneandrienko/dotfiles/blob/bd385392be04c8b077873c6fc55e95e15ed7bb78/utils/mail/.msmtprc

E-mail accounts passwords stored in ~/.netrc file.

@onokoto Of course, I use it completely #offline with fdm/procmail and msmtp. Internet access is necessary only to send and receive e-mails.

To receive e-mails I use script: https://github.com/eugeneandrienko/dotfiles/blob/bd385392be04c8b077873c6fc55e95e15ed7bb78/bin/.bin/get_mail.sh — which called from #mu4e with this options: https://github.com/eugeneandrienko/dotfiles/blob/bd385392be04c8b077873c6fc55e95e15ed7bb78/utils/emacs/.emacs.d/rc-mu4e.el#L20

#fdm configuration (all received e-mails first sent to maildrop, which puts it to proper maildirs): https://github.com/eugeneandrienko/dotfiles/blob/bd385392be04c8b077873c6fc55e95e15ed7bb78/utils/mail/.fdm.conf.

#msmtp configuration: https://github.com/eugeneandrienko/dotfiles/blob/bd385392be04c8b077873c6fc55e95e15ed7bb78/utils/mail/.msmtprc

E-mail accounts passwords stored in ~/.netrc file.

@onokoto Of course, I use it completely #offline with fdm/procmail and msmtp. Internet access is necessary only to send and receive e-mails.

To receive e-mails I use script: https://github.com/eugeneandrienko/dotfiles/blob/bd385392be04c8b077873c6fc55e95e15ed7bb78/bin/.bin/get_mail.sh — which called from #mu4e with this options: https://github.com/eugeneandrienko/dotfiles/blob/bd385392be04c8b077873c6fc55e95e15ed7bb78/utils/emacs/.emacs.d/rc-mu4e.el#L20

#fdm configuration (all received e-mails first sent to maildrop, which puts it to proper maildirs): https://github.com/eugeneandrienko/dotfiles/blob/bd385392be04c8b077873c6fc55e95e15ed7bb78/utils/mail/.fdm.conf.

#msmtp configuration: https://github.com/eugeneandrienko/dotfiles/blob/bd385392be04c8b077873c6fc55e95e15ed7bb78/utils/mail/.msmtprc

E-mail accounts passwords stored in ~/.netrc file.

As I found, to properly send e-mails via #msmtp wout "Search failed ^" error, there are should be next lines in configuration to instruct #mu4e to use msmtp (I use use-package):

(sendmail-program (executable-find "msmtp"))
(message-sendmail-envelope-from 'header)
(send-mail-function 'sendmail-send-it)
(message-send-mail-function 'sendmail-send-it)

To use proper account from ~/.msmtprc, I found here (https://macowners.club/posts/email-emacs-mu4e-macos/) timu/set-msmtp-account () function and it works pretty well 🙂

As I found, to properly send e-mails via #msmtp wout "Search failed ^" error, there are should be next lines in configuration to instruct #mu4e to use msmtp (I use use-package):

(sendmail-program (executable-find "msmtp"))
(message-sendmail-envelope-from 'header)
(send-mail-function 'sendmail-send-it)
(message-send-mail-function 'sendmail-send-it)

To use proper account from ~/.msmtprc, I found here (https://macowners.club/posts/email-emacs-mu4e-macos/) timu/set-msmtp-account () function and it works pretty well 🙂

As I found, to properly send e-mails via #msmtp wout "Search failed ^" error, there are should be next lines in configuration to instruct #mu4e to use msmtp (I use use-package):

(sendmail-program (executable-find "msmtp"))
(message-sendmail-envelope-from 'header)
(send-mail-function 'sendmail-send-it)
(message-send-mail-function 'sendmail-send-it)

To use proper account from ~/.msmtprc, I found here (https://macowners.club/posts/email-emacs-mu4e-macos/) timu/set-msmtp-account () function and it works pretty well 🙂

As I found, to properly send e-mails via #msmtp wout "Search failed ^" error, there are should be next lines in configuration to instruct #mu4e to use msmtp (I use use-package):

(sendmail-program (executable-find "msmtp"))
(message-sendmail-envelope-from 'header)
(send-mail-function 'sendmail-send-it)
(message-send-mail-function 'sendmail-send-it)

To use proper account from ~/.msmtprc, I found here (https://macowners.club/posts/email-emacs-mu4e-macos/) timu/set-msmtp-account () function and it works pretty well 🙂

As I found, to properly send e-mails via #msmtp wout "Search failed ^" error, there are should be next lines in configuration to instruct #mu4e to use msmtp (I use use-package):

(sendmail-program (executable-find "msmtp"))
(message-sendmail-envelope-from 'header)
(send-mail-function 'sendmail-send-it)
(message-send-mail-function 'sendmail-send-it)

To use proper account from ~/.msmtprc, I found here (https://macowners.club/posts/email-emacs-mu4e-macos/) timu/set-msmtp-account () function and it works pretty well 🙂

How nice to finally have #Microsoft 365 email within #mu4e using #msmtp and #davmail. When is someone going to make a #emacs linux OS and boot directly off the kernel like you could do with lilo way back when.

How nice to finally have #Microsoft 365 email within #mu4e using #msmtp and #davmail. When is someone going to make a #emacs linux OS and boot directly off the kernel like you could do with lilo way back when.

How nice to finally have #Microsoft 365 email within #mu4e using #msmtp and #davmail. When is someone going to make a #emacs linux OS and boot directly off the kernel like you could do with lilo way back when.

How nice to finally have #Microsoft 365 email within #mu4e using #msmtp and #davmail. When is someone going to make a #emacs linux OS and boot directly off the kernel like you could do with lilo way back when.