Reading and writing emails in GNU Emacs with Gnus

Amin Bandali (he/him) - IRC: bandali, https://kelar.org/~bandali, bandali@gnu.org

Format: 20-min talk ; Q&A: ask questions via Etherpad/IRC; we'll e-mail the speaker and post answers on this wiki page after the conference
Status: Waiting for video from speaker

Description

Gnus has had the reputation of being difficult to grasp and configure. The myriad of configuration options of its many major and minor modes which afford Gnus its high degree of customizability can also seem overwhelming and daunting for folks looking to learn about and use it to build a workflow for doing email in GNU Emacs.

This talk aims to provide a high-level outline of some of the key concepts in Gnus, and a roadmap for approaching and configuring Gnus and Message to your liking so that you, too, can read, compose, and send emails with GNU Emacs.

About the speaker:

Amin Bandali is a computing scientist and activist for user freedom, and a participant in various free software projects and communities. Bandali wears a few hats around the GNU Project and is a volunteer member of the Free Software Foundation SysOps team, a core organizer of EmacsConf, a Debian Developer and a contributor to the Trisquel GNU/Linux distribution.

In this talk, Bandali will go over configuring Gnus and Message for reading and composing emails, showcasing one of many approaches for using GNU Emacs for email communications.

Questions or comments? Please e-mail bandali@gnu.org

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