Re: Accessing all incoming mails, checking for network connection, changes in message status

[Manuel Carro <mcarro@fi.upm.es>]

Dear Ted,

First of all thanks for your answers and the time spent.

> Virtual groups should do this.  Otherwise you're reinventing the same
> functionality.  So if the only problem is that the GCC field is wrong,
> let's fix that.  Or is there another reason why virtual groups are not
> what you want?

I have a virtual group which puts together all mail, so that when I
enter the group I see all unread and ticked articles.  But these
articles have already been spooled to the corresponding groups.  What I
would like is to receive all mail in a single group (that is easy) and,
as I read the messages, respool them to other groups using a set of
rules and "B t" (basically the ones I have now).  It is the second part I did not
manage to find how to do, as it seems that at the moment I set up
splitting rules the mail start to be split.


> I don't think that's available like that right now.  But the Gnus Agent
> is supposed to help with connected/disconnected transitions; have you
> looked at it?

I haven't.  Thanks for the suggestion.


> I would perfonally set up a local SMTP server that will queue my mails
> until the network connection is up again.  But that's probably too
> much for most users.

I used to do that (with Postfix), but at some point I found myself using
at least three different setups (a laptop, a desktop machine, and a
vitual machine running on Mac OS X) so I decided no to set up three
different SMTP servers and use a configuration which basically runs in
user-space and which works unchanged.  I of course synchronize my
personal stuff (using unison).


> This indicates article marks are inconsistent.  Is this over IMAP or
> another protocol?  Could the server be modifying article numbers behind
> Gnus' back?

It is over IMAP, but use IMAP to copy the mail messages over to my
machine and I the processing is done locally after my mail has been
downloaded.  I do not think the article numbers are being modified,
then.

Thanks again,
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