Re: getting email offline in Emacs

[Danny YUE]

On 2017-04-05 10:20, Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all. Now that I've become mostly entrenched into Emacs, I want to get
> away from straight up Imap gnus access. I want my mail to be fetched
> regularly, without me having to "get new gnus" all the time, and I want
> to be able to access that mail while offline. So, any way to do this? I
> can handle editing config files, if that’s what it’ll take. So, I want
> offline mail, with maybe a service checking the server every 5 or 10
> minutes for new mail, without me having to deal with it once it’s set, a
> little like how Thunderbird does it.

Hi Devin,

There are many sample configuration out there but I think you may need
some experiences as references. :-)

For me, I am using getmail + crontab to fetch my emails.
getmail uses POP3 protocol to download mails to my machine so that I can
visit them offline.
crontab is really handy if you want to do something regularly and
automatically.

For Emacs side...well, I am using mu4e instead of gnus.
It is responsible to read my local mailbox and display them (i.e. as a
pure MUA).

Besides I use msmtp to send my email.

In conclusion, getmail and msmtp handles incoming and outgoing process,
so that I do not have to wait for Emacs to fetch...

P.S. I have not tried myself, but many people recommend OfflineIMAP
instead of getmail.

Good luck.

Danny