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://git

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.