Re: Using gnus with gmail: almost there

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

Carlos <carlosjosepita@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Carlos,

> 1) I would like to include my sent emails in the threads where they
> belong, like in the "conversation" view gmail offers.

I do the same.

> There is a suggestion somewhere in the net to create a virtual group
> merging the inbox and the sent mail groups, but this will only work
> for threads in the inbox. Another option is to add a copy of any sent
> mail to the current group, i.e. something like:
>
> (setq gnus-message-archive-group (lambda (g) (concat "nnimap+gmail:" g)))
>
> But this has some problems: 1.i) I don't know how to do this *only* for the 
> gmail server. 1.ii) Obviously it doesn't work for emails sent from the 
> webmail.
>
> Nevertheless, being able to solve 1.i alone would be very good news for me.

Have a look at the `gcc-self' group parameter.

,----[ (info "(gnus)Group Parameters") ]
| ‘gcc-self’
|      If ‘(gcc-self . t)’ is present in the group parameter list, newly
|      composed messages will be ‘Gcc’’d to the current group.  If
|      ‘(gcc-self . none)’ is present, no ‘Gcc:’ header will be generated,
|      if ‘(gcc-self . "string")’ is present, this string will be inserted
|      literally as a ‘gcc’ header.  This parameter takes precedence over
|      any default ‘Gcc’ rules as described later (*note Archived
|      Messages::), with the exception for messages to resend.
| 
|      *Caveat*: Adding ‘(gcc-self . t)’ to the parameter list of ‘nntp’
|      groups (or the like) isn’t valid.  An ‘nntp’ server doesn’t accept
|      articles.
`----

Here's my gcc-self related settings:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq gnus-parameters
      `((,(rx "nnimap+")
	 (gcc-self . t))
	;; Mailing List exceptions
	(,(rx "nnimap+Uni:ml/")
	 (gcc-self . "nnimap+Uni:Sent"))
	(,(rx "nnimap+Fastmail:INBOX.mailinglists.")
	 (gcc-self . "nnimap+Fastmail:INBOX.Sent Items"))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

So I gcc the current group for all my IMAP accounts, except for mailing
list groups, where I gcc the account's sent mail folder.

To have that only for your Gmail account, you would change the regex to
something like ,(rx "nnimap+Gmail") or whatever you've named your gmail
account.

> 2) I would like to postpone a message directly to a remote group
> (ideally, the gmail drafts folder). Currently I'm able to locally
> postpone a message and then move it to the remote group. A way to
> automate this is what I can't come with (or, better, to directly store
> the draft in the remote group, which I'm afraid is not possible).

I think this question pops up here once in a while, but so far nobody
seems to have implemented that feature.

Bye,
Tassilo