Cross platform, gmail compatible email client for Emacs

I spend alot of my time in Emacs, and move between Windows, Linux, and Mac OS at least once a day since these are the machines my company has available to use. I spend alot of time in gmail using gmail folders too, and would like to find a cross platform email client for emacs which can support gmail too.

Note: I would like to find a client which is "stable", and has good support and documentation.

Solution 1:

A long time ago, I used to read my e-mail in gnus. A quick search shows that gnus supports IMAP, and since GMail supports IMAP, it should (in theory) work. Here's the some documentation on how to setup imap in gnus: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/IMAP.html.

I will also add that I have not tried IMAP in gnus myself, so YMMV.

Solution 2:

I have used at least Rmail, VM, gnus, mew, and wanderlust in emacs for email in the past. Gnus I liked the least for email. Mew and wanderlust are amazing! For some years now I email with wanderlust and it is fast and supports IMAP very well.

Solution 3:

Over a very long number of years, I have used Rmail, VM (old and new), Gnus and a few others. None of them have "stuck" or qualify as stable and work with IMAP (Rmail is the best choice but does not truly support IMAP). So when I started embracing Google, I was very frustrated with the mail situation not initially caring for the Gmail web client. After a while however I started to really, really like the Gmail web client and when I found a Google Chrome extension that used Emacs (via Emacs server) I was a happy camper. This is my current Email/Emacs model and I am quite happy with it, fwiw. I highly recommend it.