Mu4e view multiple emails at the same time
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ragloo · 2022-02-08 21:50

Hi all,
I'm new to mu4e and was wondering if it's possible to view multiple
emails at the same time.
Any idea ?
Thanks

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byerley2 · 2022-02-08 23:24

Open different buffers, one for each email in different windows

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thaenalpha · 2022-02-09 03:48

You can create bookmarks to show merged views of folders across
accounts
like this:

    (mapc
       (lambda (bookmark) (add-to-list 'mu4e-bookmarks bookmark))
       `(     ; create bookmarks to show merged views of folders
across accounts:
         (,(concat
            "m:/email1/INBOX or m:/email2/Inbox or "
            "m:/email3/Inbox or m:/email4/Inbox or "
            "m:/email5/INBOX or m:/email3/IT Demands")
          "All Inboxes" ?i)
         (,(concat
            "m:/email1/[Gmail]/Sent Mail or m:/email2/Sent "
            "m:/email5/[Gmail]/Sent Mail or m:/email3/Sent or"
            " m:/email4/Sent") "All Sent" ?s)
         (,(concat
            "m:/email1/[Gmail]/Drafts or m:/email2/Drafts "
            "m:/email5/[Gmail]/Drafts or m:/email3/Drafts or "
            "m:/email4/Draft") "All Drafts" ?d)
         (,(concat
            "m:/email1/[Gmail]/All Mail or m:/email2/Archive"
            " m:/email5/[Gmail]/All Mail or m:/email3/Archive"
            " or m:/email4/Archive") "All Archives" ?a)
         (,(concat
            "m:/email1/[Gmail]/Spam or m:/email2/Junk or "
            "m:/email5/[Gmail]/Spam or m:/email3/Junk or "
            "m:/email4/Bulk Mail") "All Spams" ?p)
         (,(concat
            "m:/email1/[Gmail]/Trash or m:/email2/Deleted or"
            " m:/email5/[Gmail]/Trash or m:/email3/Deleted or"
            " m:/email4/Trash") "All Trashes" ?t)))

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polaris64 · 2022-02-09 11:38

I think this is related to the way Gnus reuses article buffers,
especially in the latest mu4e which uses Gnus article buffers by
default. Whenever a message (article) is displayed the existing
article buffer is reused rather than a new one being created.

I've tried working around this my marking a message buffer with `gnus-
sticky-article`, however I've never managed to get this to work
properly. I do wish there was a way to customise this behaviour though
as it's something I need to do quite frequently.

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ragloo · 2022-02-09 12:13

Thanks u/thaenalpha, u/byerley2, u/polaris64 for your kind and helpful
answers.

u/polaris64 That's exactly the behavior that I'm observing with mu4e
v1.6.

Perhaps someone developed a cool workaround workflow for this. but
It's indeed quite cumbersome to have to manually do \`clone-buffer\`
for each mail I want to keep seeing.

Thanks all :)

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oantolin · 2022-02-11 03:17

Can't you just open one email, rename its buffer, then open another
email?

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polaris64 · 2022-02-11 17:20

Yes that's the easiest option I've found for times when I need to do
it.