mu4e is the best mail interface I’ve ever used because it’s fast and makes it really easy to power through a huge e-mail backlog. Love the ability to capture links to emails with org-mode too.
Useful mu4e manual pages:
(use-package mu4e
:defer 20 ; Wait until 20 seconds after startup
:config
;; Load org-mode integration
(require 'org-mu4e)
;; Refresh mail using isync every 10 minutes
(setq mu4e-update-interval (* 10 60))
(setq mu4e-get-mail-command "mbsync -a")
(setq mu4e-maildir "~/Mail")
;; Use Ivy for mu4e completions (maildir folders, etc)
(setq mu4e-completing-read-function #'ivy-completing-read)
;; Make sure that moving a message (like to Trash) causes the
;; message to get a new file name. This helps to avoid the
;; dreaded "UID is N beyond highest assigned" error.
;; See this link for more info: https://stackoverflow.com/a/43461973
(setq mu4e-change-filenames-when-moving t)
;; Set up contexts for email accounts
(setq mu4e-contexts
`(,(make-mu4e-context
:name "Fastmail"
:match-func (lambda (msg) (when msg
(string-prefix-p "/Fastmail" (mu4e-message-field msg :maildir))))
:vars '(
(user-full-name . "David Wilson")
(user-mail-address . "david@daviwil.com")
(mu4e-sent-folder . "/Fastmail/Sent Items")
(mu4e-trash-folder . "/Fastmail/Trash")
(mu4e-drafts-folder . "/Fastmail/Drafts")
(mu4e-refile-folder . "/Fastmail/Archive")
(mu4e-sent-messages-behavior . sent)
))
,(make-mu4e-context
:name "Personal"
:match-func (lambda (msg) (when msg
(string-prefix-p "/Personal" (mu4e-message-field msg :maildir))))
:vars '(
(mu4e-sent-folder . "/Personal/Sent")
(mu4e-trash-folder . "/Personal/Deleted")
(mu4e-refile-folder . "/Personal/Archive")
))
))
(setq mu4e-context-policy 'pick-first)
;; Prevent mu4e from permanently deleting trashed items
;; This snippet was taken from the following article:
;; http://cachestocaches.com/2017/3/complete-guide-email-emacs-using-mu-and-/
(defun remove-nth-element (nth list)
(if (zerop nth) (cdr list)
(let ((last (nthcdr (1- nth) list)))
(setcdr last (cddr last))
list)))
(setq mu4e-marks (remove-nth-element 5 mu4e-marks))
(add-to-list 'mu4e-marks
'(trash
:char ("d" . "▼")
:prompt "dtrash"
:dyn-target (lambda (target msg) (mu4e-get-trash-folder msg))
:action (lambda (docid msg target)
(mu4e~proc-move docid
(mu4e~mark-check-target target) "-N"))))
;; Display options
(setq mu4e-view-show-images t)
(setq mu4e-view-show-addresses 't)
;; Composing mail
(setq mu4e-compose-dont-reply-to-self t)
;; Use mu4e for sending e-mail
(setq mail-user-agent 'mu4e-user-agent
message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.fastmail.com"
smtpmail-smtp-service 465
smtpmail-stream-type 'ssl)
;; Signing messages (use mml-secure-sign-pgpmime)
(setq mml-secure-openpgp-signers '("53C41E6E41AAFE55335ACA5E446A2ED4D940BF14"))
;; (See the documentation for `mu4e-sent-messages-behavior' if you have
;; additional non-Gmail addresses and want assign them different
;; behavior.)
;; setup some handy shortcuts
;; you can quickly switch to your Inbox -- press ``ji''
;; then, when you want archive some messages, move them to
;; the 'All Mail' folder by pressing ``ma''.
(setq mu4e-maildir-shortcuts
'(("/Fastmail/INBOX" . ?i)
("/Fastmail/Lists/*" . ?l)
("/Fastmail/Sent Mail" . ?s)
("/Fastmail/Trash" . ?t)))
(add-to-list 'mu4e-bookmarks
(make-mu4e-bookmark
:name "All Inboxes"
:query "maildir:/Fastmail/INBOX OR maildir:/Personal/Inbox"
:key ?i))
;; don't keep message buffers around
(setq message-kill-buffer-on-exit t)
(setq dw/mu4e-inbox-query
"(maildir:/Personal/Inbox OR maildir:/Fastmail/INBOX) AND flag:unread")
(defun dw/go-to-inbox ()
(interactive)
(mu4e-headers-search dw/mu4e-inbox-query))
(dw/leader-key-def
"m" '(:ignore t :which-key "mail")
"mm" 'mu4e
"mc" 'mu4e-compose-new
"mi" 'dw/go-to-inbox
"ms" 'mu4e-update-mail-and-index)
;; Start mu4e in the background so that it syncs mail periodically
(mu4e t))
Use mu4e-alert to show notifications when e-mail comes in:
(use-package mu4e-alert
:after mu4e
:config
;; Show unread emails from all inboxes
(setq mu4e-alert-interesting-mail-query dw/mu4e-inbox-query)
;; Show notifications for mails already notified
(setq mu4e-alert-notify-repeated-mails nil)
(mu4e-alert-enable-notifications))
Provide the dw-mail package so that it can be require‘d:
(provide 'dw-mail)
Configuration docs: https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/isync/mbsync.1.en.html
IMAPAccount fastmail
Host imap.fastmail.com
Port 993
User daviwil@fastmail.fm
PassCmd "pass Mail/Fastmail/daviwil"
SSLType IMAPS
SSLVersions TLSv1.2
CertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
# Define the remote from which mail will be synced
IMAPStore fastmail-remote
Account fastmail
# Define where mail will be stored
MaildirStore fastmail-local
Path ~/Mail/Fastmail/
Inbox ~/Mail/Fastmail/INBOX/
Trash ~/Mail/Fastmail/Trash/
SubFolders Verbatim
# Connect the remote and the local maildir
Channel fastmail
Master :fastmail-remote:
Slave :fastmail-local:
Patterns * !"Archive/*"
Expunge None
CopyArrivalDate yes
Sync All
Create Slave
SyncState *
(specifications->manifest
'("mu"
"isync"))