Re: gmail-like mail backend?

["Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005, miles@lsi.nec.co.jp wrote:

> I've come to really like the gmail notion of "groups" (really called
> "labels") actually just being views into a big pool of messages, so that
> a single message can easily exist in many groups, and things that happen
> to that message (mark it as read, delete it) are immediately visible in
> all relevant groups.  Another nice thing (in general) is that it ends to
> operate on threads as a whole, rather than individual messages; e.g., if
> you add a particular "label" to a thread, subsequent replies that arrive
> in that same thread show up in all relevant labels/groups, without the
> need to add classify them.  Moving threads around is very lightweight.
> 
> I wonder how hard would it be to have somethings niceness in gnus?
> 
> Gnus already has the notion of crossposts from news, but the pervasive
> use of group-specific article-number ranges seems somewhat problematic.
> 
> Anyway just food for thought.  I like using Emacs to read email a lot
> more than using a web-browser, but Gnus is seeming a bit clunky at the
> moment compared to gmail...

Look at my previous posts in ding on "message labels" that someone was
going to implement.  This can be done with the registry - just
associate the labels as extra data with the message ID, and you can
find the message by the message ID.

Ted