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Well you need to follow some trends your circles follow. WhatsApp is not really like IRC as it's mostly messages between two peers, and for many it's impractical to not use it.

I receive lots of HTML mail, most of them spam or newsletters I follow, and then there are those where Gmail, GitHub or whatnot adds a text/html version automatically. I just view it in the browser if it's a newsletter I expected (and there are quite a bit of them exclusively in HTML).

We can't shape the outer world, but we can transform it a bit to fit our needs. Gnus and Emacs helps quite a bit. I wish sth. similar existed for WhatsApp, but they don't have APIs AFAIK.

WRT Gnus, you should use Gmane to view mailing lists if you don't already, and with Gnus Agent you can make sure articles are available offline. Also, if you split your e-mail carefully into relevant mailboxes and use the topics mode, notmuch or alike become less necessary. I just work with Gnus and isearch, and haven't yet needed any other search tool. And my favourite line of configuration for Gnus is:

  (add-hook 'gnus-summary-prepared-hook 'gnus-summary-hide-all-threads)

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(require 'rx) (require 'mail-source) (require 'spam) (require 'gnus) (require 'message) (setf ;; Gmail does not like parens. message-from-style 'angles) ;;; Mail sources: (setf mail-sources `((pop :server "some server" :user "user name" :port 995) ,(let ((f (expand-file-name (user-login-name) "/var/mail"))) ;system mailbox (list 'file :path f)))) ;;; Spam: (spam-initialize) (setf spam-use-BBDB t ; whitelist from BBDB contacts spam-use-spamassassin t spam-assassin-program (gk-executable-ensure "spamc") gnus-spam-newsgroup-contents '(("spam" gnus-group-spam-classification-spam)) ;;; Splitting mail: nnmail-split-methods 'nnmail-split-fancy nnmail-split-fancy-match-partial-words t nnmail-split-fancy `(| (: spam-split) ;; Github: ("List-Id" "cadadr/" "inbox") ; Github issues on my github repos. ("From" "notifications@github.com" "github") ; other ;; News: (| ("From" "newsletter@newspaper.com" "news")) ;; Announcements: (| ("To" "info-gnu@gnu.org" "announcements")) ;; Links: ("Subject" "_link_" "link") ;; Files: ("Subject" "_file_" "file") ;; Self mail: ("From" ,(macroexpand `(rx ,user-mail-address)) "self") ("From" ,(rx "my other email address") "self") ("From" ,(rx "another address of mine") "self") ;; Rest goes to the inbox: "inbox")) ;;; Gnus: (setf ;;;; Mail sources: gnus-select-method '(nnml "") ;uses mail-sources gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nntp "gmane" (nntp-address "news.gmane.org"))) ;;;; Mime: gnus-buttonized-mime-types '("multipart/signed" "multipart/alternative" "text/html" "text/x-diff" "text/x-patch" "text/vcard" "text/x-org")) ;;;; Keys: ;; Render article in browser. (define-key gnus-article-mode-map "\C-cw" 'gnus-article-browse-html-article) ;;;; Gnus ui: (require 'gnus-sum) (setf ;; U: read status ;; R: A if replied to,‘ ’ if not ;; z: zscore (char) ;; B: trn-style indentation based on thread level ;; f: contents of the from or to headers. ;; s: subject or empty str if not thread root gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R%z %B%(%-23,23f%) %s \n") ;; Switch topics on and collapse all threads. Collapsed threads ;; expand automatically when you hit RET on them, and there's a ;; threads menu for the summary buffer where many commands are listed. ;; I suggest you keep menu-bar-mode on for at least Gnus as it is very ;; helpful when discovering new commands. (add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode) (add-hook 'gnus-summary-prepared-hook 'gnus-summary-hide-all-threads)