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Outlook Calendar in org agenda
I solved this myself using excorporate. To activate and integrate excorporate I used the following configuration in my .spacemacs (since I am using spacemacs)
I added excorporate to dotspacemacs-...
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Reading and writing email with emacs
Notmuch
I use notmuch for my emails in emacs.
It does only operate on local mails which needed to be stored one message per file and I use maildir folders to which my smtp-server delivers. It ...
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How to warn before sending email if Subject: is empty
One way is to hook into message-send-hook:
message-send-hook is a variable defined in ‘message.el’.
Its value is nil
This variable may be risky if used as a file-local variable.
Documentation:
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Reading and writing email with emacs
WANDERLUST: https://github.com/wanderlust/wanderlust
FEATURES:
Implementation in elisp only.
Support of IMAP4rev1, NNTP, POP(POP3/APOP), MH and Maildir.
Integrated access to messages based on ...
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mu4e: how to stop the unarchiving of entire threads when new message arrives?
You may have display of "related messages" turned on. Try pressing W (note: capital) while in your inbox (mu4e-headers-toggle-include-related) and seeing if those messages disappear.
If this is what ...
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`mu4e-contexts` multiple gmail accounts using incorrect smtp credentials
It's been almost two years since the question was asked, but I have just had the same problem and I managed to solve it using the smtpmail-smtp-user variable. In the manual it says:
If the variable ...
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How to prevent mu4e from checking mail when the internet is down?
Use wrapper shell script.
Below please find trivial sample script checking connection status as reported by Unix/Linux NetworkManager.
#!/bin/sh
# exit if there is no internet connection
/usr/bin/nm-...
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Upload ICS calendar file to Google Calendar
There is a command line interface to Google Calendar called gcalcli. You can install it using pip:
pip install gcalcli
In order to import calendar files, gcalcli requires the vobject library to be ...
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How to prevent mu4e from checking mail when the internet is down?
(Posting this Q&A combo since it took me a while to figure out, and it might save someone else the trouble.)
Based on
this answer to
a question on how to test for an internet connection within ...
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Add date to mu4e email when forwarding or replying
mu4e uses message.el to edit the messages. The documentation for message-citation-line-function in that package shows:
Function called to insert the "Whomever writes:" line.
Predefined ...
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GNUS - mark all articles in the thread as Unread
3.9.2 Thread Commands
---------------------
‘T k’
‘C-M-k’
Mark all articles in the current (sub-)thread as read
(‘gnus-summary-kill-thread’). If the prefix argument is positive,
remove ...
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Send in mail mode?
Inside any major mode you can type M-x describe-mode (C-h m) to view its description and key bindings.
mail-mode reports:
C-c C-s mail-send (send the message)
C-c C-c mail-send-and-exit (send the ...
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GNUS doesn't show all Mails
See https://github.com/redguardtoo/mastering-emacs-in-one-year-guide/blob/master/gnus-guide-en.org#usage
Quoted:
"But I strongly suggest using C-u RET in order to see all the mails instead of ...
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Configure mu4e for Gmail-style citation (reply quoting)
You need to customize message-citation-line-function. Something like this would help (it may require date formatting to please your needs):
(defun my/message-insert-citation-line ()
"Based off `...
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Changing html renderer in Wanderlust
Following @lawlist's idea of digging through the code, I have found one possible answer. It is not entirely satisfactory, but good enough for the emails I have received so far. This answer relies on ...
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Trying to separate Private and Work email using mu4e contexts in emacs
There were a number of issues (mostly my ignorance) that causes at least some of my problems. Since this could happen to others, I'll post the solutions here. Things seem to be working fine ...
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How to draft email programmatically?
Something as simple as this snippet will work, the only pitfall is that mu4e should be loaded before trying to select a context or it'll fail. From here you can "complicate" the thing as ...
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Is it possible to avoid mail-related packages?
Emacs doesn’t depend on any of those things, so it should be. However, Emacs doesn’t make the packages, the distro does. If Ubuntu’s Emacs package has dependencies that don’t make sense then you need ...
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how to do "mark-as-important" in mu4e?
I think you want to flag messages. Try using + in the headers view.
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Gnus fails to connect to GMail AUTHENTICATIONFAILED
You need generate a password for your application only (Gnus, in this case).
See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833?hl=en
I finished setup for Gnus in 1 minute, even though I never use 2 ...
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Remove attachments from emails
The solution given by @tmalsburg worked for me until I switched to the gnus-based message view, which is now the default.
Below is my attempt to adapt this solution to the new view mode. Note that I ...
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How to export org files to plain text files as it looks like in clean view?
This gets pretty close I think although I haven't tested extensively:
# -*- org-ascii-headline-spacing:(0 . 0); org-ascii-bullets:((ascii 42) (latin1 167) (utf-8 8226)) -*-
#+OPTIONS: H:0 num:nil toc:...
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How to control quoting of original message when replying?
The intended way to achieve Gmail-style citations is the following:
(with-eval-after-load 'message
(setq message-cite-style message-cite-style-gmail))
Inspecting the value and documentation of the ...
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attach multiple files from the same directory to an email message?
I like to use helm-find-files for this. You navigate to where the files are, mark the ones you want with C-spc, and attach them with C-c C-a (or press tab and find the attach files to email action).
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attach multiple files from the same directory to an email message?
open up a GUI file browser and drag the files to your emacs draft window/buffer
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How can I get a mailto link in an org-mode latex export to PDF for the #+email: keyword
This seems kind of grungy but it works:
#+latex_class: report
#+options: author:nil email:nil
#+latex_header: \author{Some user \thanks{\href{mailto:[email protected]}{[email protected]}}}
Rest of your stuff ...
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mu4e inbox update delay
mu4e farms out the actual email checking to an external program
such as offlineimap. The variable mu4e-update-interval
controls how often mu4e will call that program.
Here's the docstring:
...
Dan♦
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mu4e: open PDFs with pdf-tools
Recapping discussion in comments: Pressing A e, for "in-emacs", opens the attachment in PDFView. o e works exactly the same.
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mu4e query search for emails larger than certain size
You can specify a size range:
size:10M..100M
or:
size:10M..
Note that the manual you linked to is for mu4e, and only presents a subset of all the possible mu queries you can use. The complete list ...
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