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by nonrandomstring 1590 days ago
Can you recommend a good set of docs and tutorials to set up mu4e?

I still use emacs and a separate (mutt) MUA and copy and paste things between, I know it sounds awful... but hard to escape entrenched habits.

What would you suggest as the best steps for a good setup? Does everything go in the .emacs config? Do you need to write much e-lisp or it it a tickbox type config?

Thanks for any pointers!

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They are a bit all over the place - I started this years ago so I don't really have anything solid, but searching gives a few results that looks pretty solid ([1] [2]). If you temporarily tried doom [3], I think you could see how it would work for you. You need to install something like isync as well so you have a mailbox index locally. I would start with just one account - multiple accounts is a bit more effort.

In general, be prepared to spend some time getting this to work. I wrote a bunch of elisp, but you don't have to write much. For me it was worth it, but this is not a plug-and-play solution unfortunately (nor is notmuch).

[1]: https://jherrlin.github.io/posts/emacs-mu4e/

[2]: http://cachestocaches.com/2017/3/complete-guide-email-emacs-...

[3]: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/blob/master/modules/e...

Thank you. After I posted I realised my stupidity in not checking out your linked config file. Having fun with that now. Cheers for the additional nfo.