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Questions tagged [email]

Email-related questions across the different clients (gnus, mu4e, rmail, etc.)

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Reading and writing email with emacs

How can we use emacs to read and write email? This question is intended to provide a canonical landing point for users wanting to deal with email using emacs. Please post only one package/solution per answer, with as much details as you can.…
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Reading mailing list archives in Emacs?

I sometimes want to read mailing list archives for projects that I'm not subscribed to. There are nice HTML archives online (e.g. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-12/msg00347.html), but I don't enjoy reading mails in the…
user2005
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Using emacs with thunderbird to compose and respond to mail

There is a lot written for using emacs as a full-blown primary email program. I am looking for something with a simple setup so that I can keep Thunderbird as my primary email management program but compose and send email in emacs. Since python can…
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Problems reading emails with rmail

So, I can send emails with Emacs now. But reading emails seems to be more difficult task. I want to do it with rmail. This article says that I need to add the following lines: (setenv "MAILHOST" "pop.openmailbox.org") (setq rmail-primary-inbox-list…
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"fingerprint has changed" message when attempting to connect to smtp.gmail.com

For the last two days, whenever I try to send an email, Emacs displays the following message: The TLS connection to smtp.gmail.com:587 is insecure for the following reason: * fingerprint has changed I was unable to diagnose the problem after…
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RFC 2822 email parsing

Is there a function somewhere in emacs already to parse RFC 2822-formatted email addresses? I don't particularly care for the obsolete parts, but would like to be able to parse things like "John Smith" into ("John Smith" .…
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Colouring mail headers by recipient email addr

I currently use mutt but am trying to switch email to emacs. One of the features I rely heavily on is the ability to see which of my many email addresses a message was sent to in the mail summary pane just by the colour. All the mail arrives in the…
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bulk mail using emacs

I am looking for a way to bulk generate emails in emacs. Is there any plugin I am not aware of? I need to read 'name', 'surname', 'email', and an additional field from a CSV and place those values in a template and send them out. Would be very…
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Send org buffer as email attachment

I am working on a function that sends the current buffer as an email attachment. Here is my code (defun my/buffer-to-ipad () "Send current buffer as email attachment to iPad via email" (interactive) (mail) (mail-to) (insert "[email protected]") …
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Rmail with imap prompts no mail

I finished reading the completed chapter of 33.Rmail but have no ideas about how to read an email. ~/RMAIL keeps empty, Although, I could get some clues from "33.18 movemail program" and "33.19 Retrieving Mail from Remote…
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Reading gmail using Rmail

When I try to connect to my gmail account [email protected] (password: foopassword), using the following setting: (setq rmail-primary-inbox-list '("pop://foo:[email protected]:995")) I get the following error: movemail: mailbox…
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`message-insert-signature` : Do not add the "--" prefix?

How can I make message-insert-signature not inserting the -- prefix? If not possible, is there a another function that inserts signature without the -- prefix?
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Is it possible to avoid mail-related packages?

On GNU Linux (Ubuntu, Mint, ...), is it possible to install emacs avoiding the installation of mutt, postfix, mailutils and other mail-related packages?
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Editing Thunderbird 78+ messages in Emacs

It used to be possible to use an external editor, such as Emacs, to edit Thunderbird mail messages, but now I haven't found a way to do it. The solution to this question posted 7 years ago doesn't work on the more modern versions of Thunderbird (I'm…
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How do you change the default username in message-mode?

I've been using notmuch, via smtpmail.el and getmail to manage my emails on Emacs, and it all works, although I'm annoyed at how I need to change the name beside my (defined by user-mail-address) on the From: header. I've changed…
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