(setopt shr-use-colors nil)
THIS SETTING COMPLETELY FIXES what has been by far my biggest annoyance with mu4e. Namely the ghastly clash of awful foreground and background colors in messages that can only be rendered as HTML.
Thanks to Wouter Groeneveld for this tip and many other improvements to mu4e!
https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/01/customizing-the-emacs-email-experience-with-mu4e/
@marlinz's "Constantly fighting for structure" includes "constantly fighting against friction, because the slightest friction can become paralyzing, especially additively."
Conversely, removing distractions becomes a long-term exercise in continuous subtraction. Removing UI elements until only the essential is visible. Removing steps in workflows. Paradoxically, ADDING steps (single keystrokes) to workflows in order to reveal options in steps rather than presenting all the choices. Each reduction is tiny, but the cumulative effect—over years—is a huge reduction in stress and a huge increase in productivity throughout the day.
Much more of the day in focus. Much more of the day in flow.
For someone else's brain, context switching between a bunch of desktop apps might feel like the same cognitive burden as switching between #Emacs buffers. But for me, #OrgMode, #mu4e, and #magit have not just changed how I work.
They allow me to control how I work, with results that have been a binary, qualitative improvement.
I wonder whether it is possible to use the same #email folders that #Thunderbird (or other email clients) uses mapped for #mu4e as well? I think this would help me transition. It would be helpful to have a function that produces mu4e config out of Thunderbird's.
Gathering my thoughts for Emacs Carnival.
#Emacs ✉️
@mms I filled the bug in the FreeBSD bugtracker about this situation with emacs and mu packages: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=292576
Hope it helps :-)
Usually i am pretty amazed how much time i save while configuring my systems with NixOS/HomeManager. But this time i am trying to set up mbsync/mu/mu4e stack and i think some options are scattered all over.
I got a basic setup running now, but where do i put for example the inbox path if it differs from defaults?
#EMails mit #GNU #Emacs und #mu4e
Wie man aus GNU Emacs einen alltagstauglichen E-Mail-Client macht.
e-mails mit gnu emacs und mu4e
In der heutigen Zeit ist, wie bekannt ist, die Unabhängigkeit von US-amerikanischen E-Mail-Anbietern gar keine so schlechte Idee. Noch besser ist es natürlich, wenn man nicht nur beim Server, sondern auch beim Client maximale Freiheiten hat. Wie gut, dass es GNU Emacs gibt.
RE: https://fediscience.org/@jameshowell/115028024955832856
First week of classes, highest volume of email biannually, no big deal, thanks to #emacs and #mu4e
Don't hate me because I am efficient
James Endres Howell
Niels K.
Len 
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Eugene 
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