Re: fancy splitting interactively

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

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

> On Sunday,  4 Jan 2015 at 11:12, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> I think the idea is that you aren't really meant to run Gnus regularly
>> without the %Seen flag in that variable. That means (as far as I
>> understand it) that *every* time you get new news, *all* of your
>> existing messages will be run through the splitting process again. That
>> could be heavy, though to be honest when I've done this in the past I
>> don't remember it taking nearly as long as I thought it would.
>
> Indeed but it works well when you have more than one device
> (esp. phones) accessing the inbox, as you note later in your post, *and*
> if you have a Inbox 0 approach!
>
> My approach, when I use gnus splitting, is that I do not expect any
> emails in my INBOX once gnus has processed them.  I do access emails on
> my phone frequently so I need those that have been read elsewhere split
> as well.  In my case, *all* emails in my INBOX get split off to
> somewhere, whether to a special folder or to a "general" catch-all
> folder for emails that I cannot classify.
>
> I hope this makes sense...

Yeah, that definitely makes sense, and if you're willing to adopt the
no-messages-in-the-INBOX approach then it all works out quite nicely. I
still think someone clever should come up with a more certain solution
to the problem, though. Multiple devices -- like multiple email
addresses -- are becoming the norm rather than the exception, and in
both cases Gnus has a bit of catch-up to do...