Speaking of Christmas gifts, Mike Zamansky has just posted the latest video in his Using Emacs series. This time he talks about setting up mbsync and mu4e to handle his email. I went through that same exercise and can testify that it’s hard to figure things out so Zamansky’s video is a welcome addition to the how-to corpus.
From this video I learned how to do something I’ve often wanted to do but didn’t know was possible: compose an Email using Org mode. Like Zamansky, I usually just compose emails in plain text but sometimes it’s nice to be able to use some of Org’s features while composing an email. Sadly, markup like italics and bold didn’t get exported correctly but things like tables and source blocks did.
As I’ve said many times before, I really love using mu4e for my email and recommend it to anyone who’d like to handle email from within Emacs. If you’re interested in trying it out, Zamansky’s video and post are good resources for getting started. The video is about 24 and a half minutes so plan accordingly.