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Use IMAP and GMail on Mew in Emacs

April 8th, 2006 | Mac

Mew is a MIME mail reader of Emacs. It can handle multi mailboxes and collabrates with other programs well. This is my configuration of mew.

NOTE:

  1. I used Stunnel for SSL connection. You must modify the file location of Stunnel. If you use Mac OS X, you can install it using DarwinPorts as I do.
  2. If you want to use BBDB with Mew, take a look at Chris Beggy’s setup (it’s old, but it works).
  3. My resources for the setup are here (Chinese), here, and here.

UPDATE #1: a great Mew configuration file to take a look

UPDATE #2: I created a .mew.el files list.

6 comments ↓

#1 Clair on 04.30.09 at 2:37 pm

I am new to Mew and I was wondering how I could search my email in Mew. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!

#2 Administrator on 05.01.09 at 7:20 am

You can go to http://www.mew.org/feature/index.html.en for various search mechanisms.

#3 Bjoern on 04.20.10 at 7:49 pm

Hi, I haven’t used Mew yet. I’m looking to a good emacs mode to access gmail. Ideally without storing mails locally but acting remotely via IMAP/SMTP. Other mail clients like gnus, VM etc don’t seem to be able to do that. Does your Mew setup accomplish that? In that case I’ll have a serious look into it, otherwise a quick No would save me a great deal of time.

Thanks,

Bjoern

#4 Administrator on 04.21.10 at 5:36 am

No, Mew also works awkwardly when handling remote IMAP email, you can set up for IMAP but the inbox will be still local and don’t sync very well with remote. And mail sorting for remote folders also not handy. Mew might be good for POP but a remote IMAP like Gmail is never smooth.

I’m also looking for a good mail mode of Emacs for Gmail, but nothing is great for this. If you don’t mind use cmd, you can give Alpine a try.

#5 Jeff S on 02.01.12 at 3:21 pm

@zhangw:

just wondering.. did you ever find a good mail mode of emacs for gmail?

or did mew get better at remote INBOX (and multiple accounts)?

i love alpine but yes it is from the cmd shell (runs outside of emacs). and lost 2 days in fighting gnus configuration before i gave up. (hey, at least it’s not years!) ..

#6 admin on 02.01.12 at 4:16 pm

Jeff S I still haven’t get a good emacs mode for gmail, unless you try to use a mail mode something like offlineimap (https://github.com/jgoerzen/offlineimap), but I guess this might not be what you want.

Actually I have moved away from Emacs for handling gmail stuff.

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