Re: Problems with gnus-registry

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:51:44 -0500 Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> wrote: 

Jake> If I send an email, does the registry track anything about the sent email so
Jake> that it knows where to possibly file a reply?  Or is it only anything
Jake> sent/received after that initial reply is processed (that is, that something
Jake> was done to it to cause the registry to see it) that will be auto-filed by
Jake> the registry?

When you send an e-mail, there is no article and thus no group name for
the registry to notice.

If the article has a gcc, that will trigger the registry when the copy
is spooled.  The outgoing article in itself doesn't do anything, though.

I could add a mail send hook to do this, but it could be incorrect.  For
instance, if you send to ding while in group A but you get a copy of the
mail back into group B, You want followups in B but they'll go to A.
Maybe if the outbound mail record was a low-priority hint it could work,
but I don't like it much and I think it's confusing to users.

Jake> Here is what I am getting to:

Jake> 1) I sent an email from a specific group but nothing was entered into the
Jake>    registry at all.  If so, how will replies end up in the same group?

(I assume first you saved the registry file if you used grep on it)

It depends on whether there was a gcc.  Without gcc, nothing would be
registered.

Jake> 2) If I send email from the main gnus page (outside of any specific group) or
Jake>    from a group that does not specify a gcc-self, the email has an automatic
Jake>    gcc-self of an Archive group.  In this way, I automatically have a copy of
Jake>    all emails that I send.  Does this automatic copy to an Archive group mean
Jake>    that my replies might end up there as well?  If so, that's an issue.  I
Jake>    rarely, if ever, go to the Archive group unless I need to see when a
Jake>    message was sent.

You can set your archive group to be ignored, see
gnus-registry-ignored-groups.

Jake> Related to my original problem, if I track the extras of subject and sender,
Jake> are those guaranteed to work regardless of whether Exchange screws up the
Jake> standard headers?

They are not guaranteed:

- if you trim your registry, records will be lost

- subject and sender tracking is experimental and works OK for me, but
  you may discover bugs

- multiple matches for a subject or a sender will disqualify the match,
  to avoid ambiguous results

If you have ideas on improving any part of the registry, let me know
what you think.

Ted