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mu4e is mail on steroids. If you need to automate anything you can grok a small script in an afternoon (much less if you are familiar with elisp) and have it work for you in ways no other mail agent will.

My need: write personalized exams for my (50-ish) students, send an email for each with his respective exam, and upon receiving the replies, save each attachment in its own directory.

Some perl+latex+mu4e+elisp ans voilà.

Edit: I refuse to use my Uni’s version of moodle for long-reply exams. Also using pdftools has changed my life.



> mu4e is mail on steroids. If you need to automate anything you can grok a small script in an afternoon (much less if you are familiar with elisp)

It’s not a very good sales pitch to claim that automating anything needs a script and then even an afternoon to do it. Like I really hope that simple filter rules take at most a minute not hours. :-)

> and have it work for you in ways no other mail agent will.

How does it compare to Gnus?




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