Re: Emacs email setup, was: Email Help

[Leo Butler]

"Samuel Banya" <sbanya@fastmail.com> writes:

> I was debating setting up Emacs for Fastmail via mu-4e or GNUS.
>
> How easy is it to set this up if you have an existing mail provider like 
> Fastmail?

I have no experience with Fastmail, but my last 3 employers have used
microsoft's email service, and setting Gnus up to work with it has been
pretty painless. The hardest thing is to be disciplined, get a minimal
working configuration first, then play around if you want. Expect to
learn a lot.

Note that when I want to do big experiments with Gnus, I use an entirely
different user account and I do not experiment with my work email. Gmail
is fine...

I found a reference to this page in my gnus.el, which I recall was
really helpful:

http://www.mostlymaths.net/2010/12/emacs-30-day-challenge-using-gnus-to.html

I don't know why I didn't use the emacswiki gnustutorial, since these
articles are similar.

>
> Just hopping on this thread to ask to keep the conversation going.

Please don't hijack threads. It makes searching very difficult.

Best,
Leo

>
> Thanks,
>
> Sam
>
> On Sat, Aug 28, 2021, at 11:34 PM, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU 
> Emacs text editor wrote:
>> Jason Sanroma wrote:
>> 
>> > I was just wondering is it normal to say this as the sender address?
>> > From: Jason Sanroma
>> > <jason@vostro.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
>> 
>> Is that normal? Good question ...
>> 
>> I think what you use is
>> 
>>   (setq user-full-name    "Joe Hacker")
>>   (setq user-mail-address "joe@hacker.com")
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>>