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Faster mail with Emacs

Posted on April 12th, 2008 by Sacha Chua
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I spent a few minutes getting offlineimap to synchronize my Gmail messages with dovecot, an IMAP server on my laptop. I also set up Gnus to work with the messages. Now I’m having fun speeding through my inbox. I don’t know why, but my text-based terminal seems a lot zippier and a lot easier to work with than Gmail… =)

I’m glad I’m back to doing my mail in Emacs!

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