The check-mail script is just a wrapper around mbsync (http://isync.sourceforge.net) that invokes 'notmuch new' after running, so notmuch can index and process new messages.
My notmuch post-new hook does a bunch of tagging for me, so I have to actually look at as little email as feasible, but the main thing it sounds like you're interested in is the notification setup:
With that, I can batch-process email a few times a day, while staying responsive to any discussions I actually want to be interrupted for.
The missing piece is reasonable logic for knowing when I should be notified of new threads. I'm currently in a job where people don't expect insta-responses to email, thank God, but I've been in ones where they do and I'd have to think about how to handle that more.
My one annoyance when reading email is that large inline images aren't auto-resized to fit. They should be, but the Emacs build I use doesn't have ImageMagick support compiled in.
My custom.el probably has some notmuch settings too.
My crontab (https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/master/lib/.crontab) runs a check-mail script (https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/check-ma...) every five minutes.
The check-mail script is just a wrapper around mbsync (http://isync.sourceforge.net) that invokes 'notmuch new' after running, so notmuch can index and process new messages.
My notmuch post-new hook does a bunch of tagging for me, so I have to actually look at as little email as feasible, but the main thing it sounds like you're interested in is the notification setup:
https://github.com/NateEag/dotfiles/blob/858cabd9436d377f8fc...
With that, I can batch-process email a few times a day, while staying responsive to any discussions I actually want to be interrupted for.
The missing piece is reasonable logic for knowing when I should be notified of new threads. I'm currently in a job where people don't expect insta-responses to email, thank God, but I've been in ones where they do and I'd have to think about how to handle that more.
For reading and writing email, I just use notmuch's Emacs modes. You can see most of my interesting config here: https://github.com/NateEag/.emacs.d/blob/75d117befeaaab37cc7...
My one annoyance when reading email is that large inline images aren't auto-resized to fit. They should be, but the Emacs build I use doesn't have ImageMagick support compiled in.
My custom.el probably has some notmuch settings too.
That's the highlights. Hope it was helpful.