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I'm comfortable with Emacs for programming, Org and RSS.

I've tried using email from Emacs a number of times, but never had a setup that I stick with.

All modes that used IMAP would block.

notmuch.el was nice but distributed read-state between two DBs, which felt brittle.

I use Thunderbird. I'm keen to use email from Emacs, if I can find a decent solution.

Do you mean for fetching? I've got offlineimap set up for mine, and it's primarily a background task, because Emacs is not dealing with it directly.

Using mu4e, it is more of an interface to that local store with its built-in search API.

Better to just have two or more Emacs processes running. One for programming, one for email, one for Elfeed. If I had to check email in Emacs, I might do it this way, but like you I just use Tbird and Emacs.

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