Re: Emacs sending email via gmailieer

Subject: Re: Emacs sending email via gmailieer

Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 18:49:29 +0100

To: Matt Armstrong

Cc: Mark Gardner, notmuch

From: Gaute Hope


Check out: https://github.com/gauteh/lieer/wiki/GNU-Emacs-and-Lieer

Regards, Gaute

søn. 14. feb. 2021, 17:55 skrev Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org>:

> Mark Gardner <mkg@vt.edu> writes:
>
> > I am so close to getting my ideal email setup working...
> >
> > Instead of offlineimap or mbsync, I use gmailieer to pull down emails. It
> > is quite fast and works with notmuch to map Gmail labels to notmuch tags.
> > Much cleaner than the awkward way of accessing Gmail through IMAP. Where
> I
> > am stuck is in sending the email.
> >
> > I could set up smtpmail as described in
> > https://notmuchmail.org/emacstips/#index12h2 but gmailieer recently
> (v1.1)
> > gained the capability to send mail. I would like to use that if I can so.
> >
> > Gmailieer sends a draft through Gmail without a problem (once I create a
> > draft using message mode in emacs). Both sending a file and sending from
> > stdin work:
> > $ gmi send -C path/to/mailbox 1586809748.A123456Z12345.test\:2\,D
> > $ cat 1586809748.A123456Z12345.test\:2\,D | gmi send -C path/to/mailbox
> >
> > But I am stuck configuring emacs to use gmailieer instead of sendmail or
> > smtpmail.el. According to the emacs manual, the variable
> send-mail-function
> > can be set but none of the choices looks appropriate for gmailieer:
> >
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Mail-Sending.html
> >
> > Anyone have an idea how to configure emacs to use gmailieer to send
> emails?
>
> Mark, you'll likely have to write a send-mail-function that works with
> ilieer. Or, you'll have to write a wrapper script that makes ilieer's
> command line behave similarly to the classic Unix sendmail. At my former
> employer we took the second option. SMTP was locked down but the
> security folks provided a command line tool that could send email. The
> Emacs afficionados patched that program to be behavior-compatible with
> sendmail so we could set Emacs' 'send-mail-function' to
> the 'sendmail-send-it' function.
>
> Hope that helps!
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