collecting recently-viewed messages

collecting recently-viewed messages

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Over the past couple of years I've gotten gnus smoothed out pretty well.
But one continuing annoyance is with recent emails -- throughout the
course of the day I'm often referring back to emails I got in the
morning, forwarding things and replying multiple times, etc. I could use
a persistent nnir search group, except that I use Namazu for search
indexing and I'd have to update the index every hour or so to make it
useful.

I use the registry: would it be possible to use it to populate a virtual
group containing the last 20 registered messages? Are they ordered by
time of entry? I've got 2500 messages in there and the file's one long
line, and it's pretty darn hard to examine with either emacs or command
line tools.

I would love to hear any potential solutions to this, or even gentle
pointers in the right direction. Virtual groups are dragon-infested
territory to me, but I'd give it a shot.

Thanks!
Eric

Re: collecting recently-viewed messages

[Andrew Cohen]

>>>>> "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.

    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.

Re: collecting recently-viewed messages

[Eric Abrahamsen]

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!