Revisiting the Anatomy of Emacs Mail User Agents
Explore the anatomy of Emacs mail user agents in this 38-minute conference talk from EmacsConf 2022. Delve into the concept of split-MUAs and their role in the digital ecosystem. Learn about existing Elisp mail libraries, the ByStar project, and the MARMEE common-agent for split-MUA implementations. Discover how to obtain, install, and configure MARMEE, and understand its integration with Blee-Gnus. Examine the evolution of Gnus with MARMEE, including X-Message-SMTP-Method and shared configuration management. Gain insights into the transformation of message-mode into message-polymode and explore two vertical-slice mail use cases. Access this talk and related resources using free/libre software, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.