On Thursday Jan 16 2014, [email protected] wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just set up mu4e and imported 110,000 messages with mu. I like the 
> system and am seriously considering switching from alpine. Unfortunately, 
> I'm not much of a lisp hacker and that may make adoption difficult. Anyway, 
> I have some comments and questions I hope y'all can answer to help me 
> evaluate this.

Welcome!

> First, a small contribution: I found that using pandoc as the html-to-text 
> converter lets me view incoming HTML in org-mode syntax: (setq 
> mu4e-html2text-command "pandoc -f html -t org")
>
> 0) If I set a ".noindex" file for mu, how do I search those mailboxes? Do I 
> just need to explicitely enter them (via j o <maildir>) and then the search 
> will work?

No -- noindex does just that, it excludes the directory from being
indexed. If you want to that "sometimes", you can add/remove the
.noindex.

> 1) Perhaps I need to change my behavior rather than customize mu4e, but I 
> still prefer some filing with Fcc rather than everything to sent or 
> archive. I copied the Bcc example 
> from http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e/Compose-hooks.html for Fcc, 
> but things are still filed in "sent". I'm trying to replicate my existing 
> alpine behavior.

There's also `mu4e-sent-messages-behavior', which may help.

> Currently, the Alpine address book is built from the OS X Contacts (via the 
> "contacts" command line program available in Homebrew). Nickname from each 
> contact, if it exists, becomes the Fcc field, otherwise company name, 
> otherwise default. This lets me have all family members and friends get 
> their own mailbox, but all work colleagues file into the same place, for 
> example.
>
> 2) I found two examples about reply role based on either who the message 
> was sent to (compose hook 
> http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e/Compose-hooks.html), or what 
> maildir the message was in 
> (http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e/Multiple-accounts.html). I prefer 
> the reply based on what email address it was sent to. Implementing that 
> code doesn't seem to work, and again, my lisp skills are not very 
> developed. I can get it so when I compose a new message it asks me for an 
> account, but if I then reply to a message, I get "error in process filter: 
> No email account found". I'd just like the reply to be from the email I 
> received it at, which is either in the To: or Cc: field, and a default if 
> not found (for example, if message was Bcc: to me).

`mu4e-compose-pre-hook' should allow you to do that, but it would
require a little bit of elisp, unless someone has written the exact
thing that you need -- there's an example in the manual (the 'Compose
hooks' you already mentioned) that should come fairly close.

> 3) I don't have imagemagick but do have graphicsmagick. Images show inline, 
> but are not scaled. Is there a way to do the scaling with graphicsmagick?

This is handled by emacs, which (optionally) uses imagemagick internally
for this.

> Overall very nice software. I hope I can make the switch, and I hope asking 
> lots of question here is OK.

Sure!

Best wishes,
Dirk.

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Dirk-Jan C. Binnema                  Helsinki, Finland
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