Finally, here are some more settings that are useful, but not enabled by default for various reasons.
;; use 'fancy' non-ascii characters in various places in mu4e (setq mu4e-use-fancy-chars t) ;; save attachment to my desktop (this can also be a function) (setq mu4e-attachment-dir "~/Desktop") ;; attempt to show images when viewing messages (setq mu4e-view-show-images t)