Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e
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Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e
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Re: Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e
#2Thanks, keeping this as a reference — I'm trying to find some time to try mu4e. I used Gnus for many years, then switched to Apple Mail.app, but with the gradual decline of MacOS (and Mail.app) I'm looking to switch back.
I remember the two main reasons I switched from Gnus: 1) there was no good reliable search, 2) I couldn't drag&drop attachments into E-mails and back so I was spending a lot of time pointing to files. I hope both things have improved since then.
Re: Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e
#3Have you tried using the hardcoded Thunderbird (or similar) oauth credentials to authenticate to Google et al? You can also use davmail to proxy your requests to Office 365 / Exchange and it handles oauth also.
Re: Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e
#4For OAUTH2, I recommend starting pizauth (https://github.com/ltratt/pizauth) as a user systemd unit.
Then you can just do (eg. in mbsync)
PassCmd "pizauth show accountname"
Re: Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e
#5Have you tried using the hardcoded Thunderbird (or similar) oauth credentials to authenticate to Google et al? You can also use davmail to proxy your requests to Office 365 / Exchange and it handles oauth also.
I tried both. The error from davmail suggests it was specifically blocked/prohibit and I failed using actual Thunderbird.
Re: Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e
#6Have you tried using the hardcoded Thunderbird (or similar) oauth credentials to authenticate to Google et al? You can also use davmail to proxy your requests to Office 365 / Exchange and it handles oauth also.
I tried both. The error from davmail suggests it was specifically blocked/prohibit and I failed using actual Thunderbird.
Hi, I guess you have already tried.
My Uni also made it difficult but I succeeded in setting up a working davmail, using the exchange protocol.
Mail my username at gmail.com if you think I can help.
Gateway: Exchange Protocol: O365Interactive OWA or EWS (Exchange) URL: https://outlook.office365.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx
(follow the instructions at https://davmail.sourceforge.net/faq.html)
Re: Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e
#7If you need to handle OAuth, I have a service to help with that: https://auth-email.com
Authorize once in a web dashboard, then use your accounts as if they didn’t need OAuth (ie. normal IMAP, POP3 or SMTP).
Re: Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e
#8Thanks, keeping this as a reference — I'm trying to find some time to try mu4e. I used Gnus for many years, then switched to Apple Mail.app, but with the gradual decline of MacOS (and Mail.app) I'm looking to switch back. I remember the two main reasons I switched from Gnus: 1) there was no good reliable search, 2) I couldn't drag&drop attachments into E-mails and back so I was spending a lot of time pointing to file…
I am a Gnus user. My 2 cents…
concerning (1): I have no offline sync in place, all my emails stay on the server. The IMAP protocol has a decent server-side search included[0], combined with Gnus unified search syntax[1], I enjoy a hassle-free search experience.
[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Sea...
[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Sea...
Re: Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e
#9By the way, anyone have experience using emacs to analyse and visualise data (think spreadsheets and charts)? I’d really like to be able to use it to view any sort of data I happen to have.
Re: Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e
#10I read eMule and got nostalgic