{"id":8004,"date":"2019-04-27T13:13:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T17:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8004"},"modified":"2019-04-27T13:13:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T17:13:06","slug":"an-easy-tutorial-for-setting-up-mu4e-and-mbsync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8004","title":{"rendered":"An Easy Tutorial for Setting Up Mu4e and Mbsync"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who have been around for a while know that I\u2019m a huge fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djcbsoftware.nl\/code\/mu\/\">mu\/mu4e<\/a>. I use it everyday to read and send all my email. You may also remember that I had a difficult time getting it installed and set up. Part of that is because I\u2019m on a Mac and things are a little different there but even for Linux users configuring mbsync can be tricky.<\/p>\n<p>Over at the Emacs subreddit, skizmi has a nice post that he advertises as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/emacs\/comments\/bfsck6\/mu4e_for_dummies\/\">mu4e for Dummies<\/a>. It\u2019s a succinct guide for installing and configuring <code>mu<\/code>, <code>mu4e<\/code>, and <code>mbsync<\/code> to handle multiple Gmail accounts. It\u2019s a really handy resource if you\u2019re trying to get mu4e working.<\/p>\n<p>If you <i>are<\/i> thinking about moving to <code>mu4e<\/code>, I urge you to read Ben Maughan\u2019s excellent post on <a href=\"http:\/\/pragmaticemacs.com\/emacs\/master-your-inbox-with-mu4e-and-org-mode\/\">how he uses mu4e<\/a>. The TL;DR is that he acts on every email\u2014perhaps by turning it into a TODO item to be handled later\u2014right away and all emails that he keeps go into a single folder. The idea is to let mu\u2019s fast and flexible search facilities locate whatever old email you need. I\u2019ve been using his system for a couple of years and can tell you it\u2019s absolutely faster and easier than trying to file emails into separate folders. Maughan has a <a href=\"http:\/\/pragmaticemacs.com\/mu4e-tutorials\/\">series of mu4e tutorials<\/a> that are also worth looking at.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve used browser based mail readers, pine, mutt, iMail, and a bunch of others and mu4e is by far the most enjoyable and powerful. If you\u2019re interested in trying it out, skizmi\u2019s post is a good place to start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who have been around for a while know that I\u2019m a huge fan of mu\/mu4e. I use it everyday to read and send all my email. You may also remember that I had a difficult time getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8004\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,166],"class_list":["post-8004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs","tag-mu4e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8005,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004\/revisions\/8005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}