3 May 2023
I recently managed to get access to my Outlook email from Emacs. This took some doing as my university had disabled app passwords. I consider Outlook to be harmful, but inasmuch as companies and schools continue to enforce OAUTH-only authentication with email systems, it is good to find workarounds.
This is how I set up email sending/receiving on my computer running macOS with DavMail. I also use mbsync (confusingly also known as isync) to actually fetch my email, and mu/mu4e to index and read mail. Douglas Rumbaugh has an awesome blog post that I followed to get this working. You should read that. This will mostly be my specific configuration settings as well as some tips and tricks.
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28 Aug 2022
It’s hard to overstate how important email is in our modern world. Even as hip new platforms like Slack &co. gain traction in the workplace, so much communication takes place in a crusty old medium that’s outlived every purported “email killer”. Where does it get its staying power from?
Email predates much of the Internet as we know it today. Its current incarnation first emerged in the early 80s, though it has roots in earlier forms of digital messaging from as far back as the 60s. “Email” is roughly three related protocols: SMTP, “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol”, which deals with the sending of mail; IMAP, or “Internet Message Access Protocol”, which allows mail clients to fetch mail; and POP3, or “Post Office Protocol”, an older mail fetching protocol largely superseded by IMAP.
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