From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/85430 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: fancy splitting interactively Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 22:34:15 +0800 Message-ID: <87mw5x70uw.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87fvbs6u4k.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87lhlk168j.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <871tncvulj.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <877fx37ob9.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87k313utl5.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <874ms54ddy.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420468183 11162 80.91.229.3 (5 Jan 2015 14:29:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 14:29:43 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M33672@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jan 05 15:29:36 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y88f1-0008QV-OB for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:29:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Y88e5-0006yk-Jd; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 08:28:37 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Y88e3-0006yZ-2x for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 08:28:35 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Y88dr-0006Ja-Bi for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 08:28:34 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y88dm-000458-Hg for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:28:18 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y88dm-0007la-8R for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:28:18 +0100 Original-Received: from 222.129.224.90 ([222.129.224.90]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:28:18 +0100 Original-Received: from eric by 222.129.224.90 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:28:18 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 222.129.224.90 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ijNEoxKOmFSLRsf04UGuGCLJb38= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:85430 Archived-At: Eric S Fraga 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...