Re: collecting recently-viewed messages

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Andrew Cohen <cohen@bu.edu> writes:

>>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>     Eric> Over the past couple of years I've gotten gnus smoothed out
>     Eric> pretty well.  But one continuing annoyance is with recent
>     Eric> emails -- throughout the course of the day I'm often referring
>     Eric> back to emails I got in the morning, forwarding things and
>     Eric> replying multiple times, etc. I could use a persistent nnir
>     Eric> search group, except that I use Namazu for search indexing and
>     Eric> I'd have to update the index every hour or so to make it
>     Eric> useful.
>
> I re-wrote nnir mostly because I was tired of using namazu when imap
> provides (at least for me) better and faster searching. So just a gentle
> prod to consider switching at some point down the road.

I know, I probably will at some point...

>     Eric> I use the registry: would it be possible to use it to populate
>     Eric> a virtual group containing the last 20 registered messages?
>     Eric> Are they ordered by time of entry? I've got 2500 messages in
>     Eric> there and the file's one long line, and it's pretty darn hard
>     Eric> to examine with either emacs or command line tools.
>
>     Eric> I would love to hear any potential solutions to this, or even
>     Eric> gentle pointers in the right direction. Virtual groups are
>     Eric> dragon-infested territory to me, but I'd give it a shot.
>
> Just off the top of my head:
>
> What about a "today's mail" group that has total-expire set and a time
> of one day (or whatever you like). Then set up the expiry-target to be
> wherever the messages would normally go.

That's not a bad idea, thanks!