doomemacs/modules/app/email/README.org

:app email

• Table of Contents
• Install
  • MacOS
  • Arch Linux
• Dependencies

This module makes Emacs an email client, using mu4e.

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.

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• Install

  • MacOS
  • Arch Linux
• Dependencies

Install

This module requires:

• offlineimap (to sync mail with)
• mu (to index your downloaded messages)

MacOS

brew install mu --with-emacs
brew install offlineimap

Arch Linux

sudo pacman --noconfirm --needed -S offlineimap mu

Dependencies

You need to do the following:

1. Write a \~/.offlineimaprc. Mine can be found 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

Then configure Emacs to use your email address:

;; Each path is relative to `+email-mu4e-mail-path', which is ~/.mail by default
(set! :email "Lissner.net"
    '((mu4e-sent-folder       . "/Lissner.net/Sent Mail")
      (mu4e-drafts-folder     . "/Lissner.net/Drafts")
      (mu4e-trash-folder      . "/Lissner.net/Trash")
      (mu4e-refile-folder     . "/Lissner.net/All Mail")
      (smtpmail-smtp-user     . "henrik@lissner.net")
      (user-mail-address      . "henrik@lissner.net")
      (mu4e-compose-signature . "---\nHenrik Lissner"))
    t)