Getting Gmail in Emacs?

I'm trying to learn Emacs, and I think that getting gmail right in it would be cool. I've tried a but of tutorials online, but I couldn't figure out what a lot of them were talking about. A lot of them listed elisp code but didn't tell where to put it, and others just didn't work (they created errors). All I really want is to send and receive email - folders and smtp(?) are completely optional.

Does anyone know a good way of doing this?

Edit: I found http://www.gohome.org/wl/doc/wl_toc.html to be helpful in figuring out Wanderlust.

Jeremy

Posted 2009-11-12T13:42:49.803

Reputation: 335

2@Gnoupi. Emacs is a software development platform that promotes plain text/keyboard user interfaces (sometimes called "text user interfaces"). It contrasts with Java and .NET that promote graphical user interfaces. – Uday Reddy – 2012-04-28T08:07:13.083

1@Gnoupi: Emacs is really great for browsing and editing text; what is email except a special case of this? – Tikhon Jelvis – 2012-12-03T20:22:21.470

@TikhonJelvis - Organizing, sorting, filtering, archiving. The base of email is reading and writing text, for sure. But when it gets busy, you can need more than just that. – Gnoupi – 2012-12-04T08:22:19.180

4Why do people insist so much on doing other things than editing text, with Emacs? This has always amazed me ;) – Gnoupi – 2009-11-12T13:45:44.947

14Emacs- not just an editor, an operating system! – kmarsh – 2009-11-12T13:50:52.473

2This is built in: C-q C-p C-x fgh 2 99z {Return} :P – Phoshi – 2009-11-15T18:08:00.943

1@Gnoupi - I think they don't even know themselves. They just like the hype. – Rook – 2009-11-15T18:08:09.133

4Emacs Gnus is an outstanding email client. – Richard Hoskins – 2009-11-15T20:19:11.910

Answers

I've had success using wanderlust. This is a good tutorial for setting it up:

http://box.matto.nl/emacsgmail.html

tedddd

Posted 2009-11-12T13:42:49.803

Reputation: 36

I have it setup as a gnus secondary source. In .gnus.el I have:

(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
  '(nnimap "gmail"
    (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")
    (nnimap-server-port 993)
    (nnimap-stream ssl)
    (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo.gpg")
    ))

and in .authinfo.gpg I have:

machine "gmail" imap.gmail.com login username@gmail.com password trustno1

You'll need to enable imap on your accounts to make it work. .authinfo.gpg is gpg encrypted (for password privacy) and I have the easypg package installed to decrypt it on demand.

I send email locally, so you'll have to look at emacswiki.org to work out how to send it via gmail's servers.

pgs

Posted 2009-11-12T13:42:49.803

Reputation: 3 153

Checkout Nathaniel's posts on GMail with Emacs at http://nflath.com/2009/10/gmail-from-emacs/ and http://nflath.com/2009/10/more-gmail-with-emacs/

– viam0Zah – 2009-11-12T14:24:01.530