Re: Snoozing a message in gnus?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 19:04:57 +0800 Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote: 
>
> EA> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>>> some mail clients (add on for notmuch [1] or Mailbox [2]) have an
>>> interesting feature, namely snoozing messages, i.e. removing them
>>> temporarily from the inbox and having them returned after / at a certain time.
>>> 
>>> This would make scheduling to deal with emails much easier.
>>> 
>>> I was wondering - is there something similar possible in GNUS?
>
> EA> I would just capture the message to an Org TODO, and then schedule the
> EA> TODO for some time in the future. Instant snooze!
>
> That's pretty cool.  I want to offer that the Gnus registry could also
> store this information, for those that don't use Org.

FWIW, this is where I'm planning to take Gnorb[1]. Right now it store
correspondences between messages and Org TODOs using the registry, and
includes a dummy Gnus server for doing nnir searches. I'm planning on
fleshing out that server so that it has real groups: each group would
hold (virtual copies of) the messages associated with a certain Org
TODO. Each group would be created using the information stored in the
registry.

That way you could refresh these groups as you pleased, and see what
needed to be done for each TODO, or refresh the whole server and see
everything. Once I got to that point, it would be possible to make it
work even for people who aren't using Org: the "todo" information could
be solely stored in the registry.

Anyway, that's where that's headed.

Eric

[1]: https://github.com/girzel/gnorb