Re: still want Seen articles split...

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 17:55:19 +0000 Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: 
>>
>> ESF> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>> ESF> [...]
>>
>>>> I can't really take it out of there, because IIUC that will resplit all
>>>> the messages in INBOX every single time I sync, which would be bad. 
>>
>> ESF> This would only be bad if splitting leaves messages in INBOX.  My
>> ESF> solution to this problem was to ensure that all emails are moved to
>> ESF> other folders when splitting, leaving INBOX empty each time.  For those
>> ESF> emails that you would normally have left in INBOX, create a "general"
>> ESF> folder and move them there.
>>
>> ESF> Alternatively, do the splitting on the server instead of in gnus.
>>
>> ESF> Both approaches can work -- I've done both and, in fact, currently use a
>> ESF> combination of the two.  On the server, I split those emails I would
>> ESF> seldom, if ever, want to look at on a mobile device.  Gnus splits all
>> ESF> others, seen or not.
>>
>> I keep everything from one account in a single INBOX to keep it
>> manageable with other tools, but another account is always split into
>> folders.  Both approaches make sense in context.
>>
>> I can't think of a good general solution, sorry.  A gnus-seen flag would
>> help but not in every situation.
>
> Fair enough. Both approaches do make sense, and generally speaking
> server-side splitting seems far the most reasonable thing to do. I only
> wish Gmail supported bulk import of filters -- I'm pretty wedded to my
> BBDB-based splitting.

May have spoken too soon -- it looks like Gmail can import in bulk. Now
to see if importation can be automated...