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+1. I spent a while trying to persuade Apple Mail to let me receive notifications only for threads I was 'watching'. I never did come up with a sane answer, and

+1. I spent a while trying to persuade Apple Mail to let me receive notifications only for threads I was 'watching'. I never did come up with a sane answer, and finally decided "well, I use Emacs for almost everything else. Might as well see how email pans out..." With notmuch and mbsync I have the best email setup I ever have. I wish I'd done it years ago.

nextos 8y ago
Can you share your setup?
- NateEag 8y ago
  Sure. It's all available in my dotfiles and .emacs.d repos on GitHub. It's not elegant or pretty, but it has worked well for me so far. My crontab (https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/master/lib/.crontab https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/master/lib/.crontab) runs a check-mail script (https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/check-mail https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/check-ma...) every five minutes. The check-mail script is just a wrapper around mbsync (http://isync.sourceforge.net http://isync.sourceforge.net) that invokes 'notmuch new' after running, so notmuch can index and process new messages. My notmuch post-new hook does a bunch of tagging for me, so I have to actually look at as little email as feasible, but the main thing it sounds like you're interested in is the notification setup: https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/858cabd9436d377f8fc2731b6f558e4f7ca15e73/bin/notmuch-post-new-hook#L76 https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/858cabd9436d377f8fc... With that, I can batch-process email a few times a day, while staying responsive to any discussions I actually want to be interrupted for. The missing piece is reasonable logic for knowing when I should be notified of new threads. I'm currently in a job where people don't expect insta-responses to email, thank God, but I've been in ones where they do and I'd have to think about how to handle that more. For reading and writing email, I just use notmuch's Emacs modes. You can see most of my interesting config here: https://github.com/NateEag/.emacs.d/blob/75d117befeaaab37cc79388a5996955115d083dc/site-lisp/config-packages.el#L61 https://github.com/NateEag/.emacs.d/blob/75d117befeaaab37cc7... My one annoyance when reading email is that large inline images aren't auto-resized to fit. They should be, but the Emacs build I use doesn't have ImageMagick support compiled in. My custom.el probably has some notmuch settings too. That's the highlights. Hope it was helpful.
lozf 8y ago
Would love to learn more about that, do you have a blog post or any pointers please?
- NateEag 8y ago
  I'm not sure if HN sends response notifications or if people depend on them, but just in case, I answered the sibling question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17888628 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17888628

nextos 8y ago

Can you share your setup?

NateEag 8y ago
Sure. It's all available in my dotfiles and .emacs.d repos on GitHub. It's not elegant or pretty, but it has worked well for me so far. My crontab (https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/master/lib/.crontab https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/master/lib/.crontab) runs a check-mail script (https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/check-mail https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/check-ma...) every five minutes. The check-mail script is just a wrapper around mbsync (http://isync.sourceforge.net http://isync.sourceforge.net) that invokes 'notmuch new' after running, so notmuch can index and process new messages. My notmuch post-new hook does a bunch of tagging for me, so I have to actually look at as little email as feasible, but the main thing it sounds like you're interested in is the notification setup: https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/858cabd9436d377f8fc2731b6f558e4f7ca15e73/bin/notmuch-post-new-hook#L76 https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/858cabd9436d377f8fc... With that, I can batch-process email a few times a day, while staying responsive to any discussions I actually want to be interrupted for. The missing piece is reasonable logic for knowing when I should be notified of new threads. I'm currently in a job where people don't expect insta-responses to email, thank God, but I've been in ones where they do and I'd have to think about how to handle that more. For reading and writing email, I just use notmuch's Emacs modes. You can see most of my interesting config here: https://github.com/NateEag/.emacs.d/blob/75d117befeaaab37cc79388a5996955115d083dc/site-lisp/config-packages.el#L61 https://github.com/NateEag/.emacs.d/blob/75d117befeaaab37cc7... My one annoyance when reading email is that large inline images aren't auto-resized to fit. They should be, but the Emacs build I use doesn't have ImageMagick support compiled in. My custom.el probably has some notmuch settings too. That's the highlights. Hope it was helpful.

lozf 8y ago

Would love to learn more about that, do you have a blog post or any pointers please?

NateEag 8y ago
I'm not sure if HN sends response notifications or if people depend on them, but just in case, I answered the sibling question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17888628 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17888628