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Re: Using R-mail in Emacs


From: Robert Pluim
Subject: Re: Using R-mail in Emacs
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 09:50:29 +0200

"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
>>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:34:14 +0200
>>>
>>> > You mean, Gnus can know when you have no more use of some email
>>> > message and it can be discarded?  How does it do that?
>>>
>>> It does (at least) time based auto-expiration. Probably score based as
>>> well [1], plus you can mark messages as expirable/unexpirable.
>>
>> The oldest email in my INBOX is from 18 years ago, and I still need it
>> from time to time.  I guess time-based expiration is not for me.
>
> The default is for articles not to expire - you have to mark an email
> explicitly as expirable for it to get deleted at some point.
>

Yes, although (if memory serves), marking the email as read marks it
as expirable by default. As you can guess, I donʼt use it.

> For many years I have used a less than a dozen folders with Gnus
> splitting mechanism for sorting incoming mail, although lately I have
> moved to server-side rules to allow me to read mail more selectively on
> devices without Gnus.  However, I feel the many-folder approach does
> have some drawbacks.  Does an email from my wife about school need to be
> filed in "family" or "school"?  Similar but more subtle situations occur
> with my work mail.  For this reason I find myself thinking that just one
> or two folders with a good search mechanism would be a more flexible
> solution.  I've had a look at mu4e but the whole offline IMAP
> construction puts me off a bit.  I always thought it was necessary
> because IMAP is fundamentally just slow, but searching through my mail
> using an Outlook web client is, to my chagrin as a bit of a FOSS
> die-hard, extremely fast.  Does anyone know why that should be?

You could use the gnus agent to keep a local copy of your email and
search that (or offlineimap, and probably others)

> Cheers,
>
> Loris
>
> PS: Eli, shouldn't that 18-year-old mail in your INBOX have been filed
> away into one of your two dozen folders by now 😉? Or is it maybe one of
> those tricky corner-cases 😅?

Emacs development is a slow but inevitable process :-)



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