Multiple values for mu4e-get-mail-command

[Henry]

I'm using a pretty simple setup, currently: I'm using Gmail, and I sync two folders: "INBOX" and "[Gmail]/All Mail"

I only want to update All Mail sporadically, but I update my INBOX much more often.

I try to archive mail ASAP, so that my INBOX never has more than a dozen emails, versus hundreds of thousands in All Mail.

I currently have

(setq mu4e-get-mail-command "offlineimap")

in ~/.emacs, which I have set to update only my INBOX.

I would like to enable a secondary value for mu4e-get-mail-command, "offlineimap -a mail-all", which I can trigger directly.

It looks to me like contexts are overkill for what I need...could anyone suggest any alternatives?

Thank you!

Best

Henry

[Eduardo Mercovich]

Hello Henry.

> I'm using a pretty simple setup, currently: I'm using Gmail, and
> I sync two folders: "INBOX" and "[Gmail]/All Mail"

Similar to mine...

> I only want to update All Mail sporadically, but I update my

> INBOX much more often. [...] I currently have

> (setq mu4e-get-mail-command "offlineimap") in ~/.emacs, which I
> have set to update only my INBOX.
> I would like to enable a secondary value for
> mu4e-get-mail-command, "offlineimap -a mail-all", which I can

> trigger directly. [...]

Would it help to run a script and let that script decide when to
update inbox and when everything?
If you run that script every 5 minutes, you can check inbox all
the time but 1/hour you check all mail.

BTW, I used offlineimap 1st, but tried mbsync and the change was
*very* positive.

HTH... :)

--
Eduardo Mercovich

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[Peter Tran-Jørgensen]

You could use a hook (e.g. mu4e-update-pre-hook) to set your mu4e-get-mail-command in a clever way.

Example: https://github.com/thierryvolpiatto/emacs-tv-config/blob/master/mu4e-config.el#L194-L207