Re: fancy splitting interactively

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Tuesday,  6 Jan 2015 at 09:25, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> The multiple device problem is trickier. The idea of Gnus-specific marks
>> was floated, and Lars was also talking about something called "Gnus
>> Cloudy" which might also address this. It's not an area I'm very
>> familiar with, and I guess I don't know what the best solution is...
>
> I am not sure what the problem is?  Gnus handles marks understood by
> other MUAs properly, as far as I can tell.

The OP was talking about the fact that, by default, Gnus won't split
read messages. So if you've read it on your phone or whatever, it won't
get split. Unless you do the zero INBOX thing.

> My annoyance is that server side splitting is incredibly clumsy (in my
> experience) compared with gnus's fancy splitting capabilities and so I
> hate having to read emails on other devices with having split anything.

No argument here! 

> Of course, once the emails have been processed once by gnus, I can
> access all the appropriate folders on other devices (assuming IMAP, of
> course).
>
> So, again, my view is that other MUAs need to catch up...
>
> Am I missing something?