On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:15:16 +0000, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote: > On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 03:39:23 -0500, don warner saklad <don.saklad@gmail.com> wrote: > > a) For gmail how do you setup notmuch mail ?... > > > > b) Any workarounds? > > > > c) Any kludges? I'll describe my own setup for using notmuch with gmail. I don't pretend it will work for everyone, but you might find some bits of it useful. I don't even try to sync notmuch tags and gmail labels (because I rarely use the labels or the web interface anyway), but I do get sync for "unread" and "flagged" (gmail and Android "starred"). You'll need maildir.synchronize_flags = true in your ~/.notmuch-config for this. > Many people around here do that using offlineimap, which will > synchronise an IMAP server (Gmail in this instance) with various local > directories in Maildir format. I use offlineimap. I run it from the notmuch pre-new hook. This means I have to run "notmuch new" to receive new mail. $ cat ~/.maildir/.notmuch/hooks/pre-new #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/offlineimap I only sync "All Mail" from gmail. Perhaps there would be some optimizations that could be done, but I haven't bothered yet. $ cat ~/.offlineimaprc [general] accounts = Gmail ui = Noninteractive.Basic [Account Gmail] localrepository = Local remoterepository = Remote [Repository Local] type = Maildir localfolders = ~/.maildir [Repository Remote] type = IMAP ssl = yes remotehost = imap.gmail.com remoteuser = USER@gmail.com expunge = no realdelete = no folderfilter = lambda foldername: foldername in ['[Gmail]/All Mail'] nametrans = lambda foldername: re.sub('^\[Gmail\]/All Mail', 'gmail', foldername) > Sending mail via Gmail can be done in various ways. You can set up your > local MTA (Postfix, Exim, ...) to deliver mail via Gmail, or have Emacs > do the same directly using the smtpmail.el package. Personally I use msmtp (msmtp and msmtp-mta packages in Debian based distros). The msmtp-mta sets up a sendmail-like binary that works out of the box in Emacs. Beware that it doesn't have a local queue, it works synchronously. $ cat ~/.msmtprc defaults logfile ~/.msmtp.log tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt account default host smtp.gmail.com from USER@gmail.com tls on tls_starttls off auth on user USER@gmail.com Finally, I use goobook to use the gmail contacts as addressbook in Emacs. See http://mid.gmane.org/87zkfuh3i0.fsf@nikula.org for that. HTH, Jani.