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. -- Dirk-Jan C. Binnema Helsinki, Finland e:[email protected] w:www.djcbsoftware.nl pgp: D09C E664 897D 7D39 5047 A178 E96A C7A1 017D DA3C -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mu-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
