Re: emacs 24 and gnus

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

Tommy Kelly <tommy.kelly@verilab.com> writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> That is true, but I think I probably stick with the released Gnus at
>> some point ( if I ever get my spam-split working again - I still havent
>> see a working one with nnmail and nnimap split settings) as I had a few
>> bad experiences with losing email in the last mad development phase
>> which saw the brilliant IMAP improvements.
>
> I concur. The excellent IMAP speed improvements aren't enough to
> compensate for my inability to get fancy splitting working (although
> that's not a new-versus-old-gnus issue -- just a
> fancy-split-is-hard-to-get-working one). While I was spending time
> wrestling with lisp, my email backlog grew to over 500 messages. And
> then it grew further, to almost 1000, when at one point Gnus decided to
> mark all my messages as read and I had no choice but to unmark enough
> back in time so as to be sure I caught everything I hadn't yet
> handled!

I have posted my set up a few times now and its still not working and I
still havent seen a working set up. Is it really the case that no one
else is using imap with spam-split?

>
> Given that one of the reasons I moved to gnus was because of its support
> for org-mode and org-mode itself is hard enough to learn, I'm
> temporarily (I hope) having to revert to gmail via a browser (cue sound
> of chicken clucking :-) ), at least until such times as I've gotten my
> arms around org and can maybe have another crack at fancy splitting.


Or do what I do : mark the mail with imap labels using gmail filters :
they correspond to your gnus folders.

Despite splitting being a bit complicated and not working in my case, Gnus is still the
numero uno mail reader ;)