Re: Snoozing a message in gnus?

[Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>]

Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:

> Snoozing should work on all (probably except nntp as it is read only?)
> backends. But what about the approach which Mailbox is using,
> i.e. moving the messages from the inbox into another folder (called "Later"?), and storing
> metadata (which folder the message is from, when it is due, ...) in the
> registry? The querying of the registry could be timed (every x minutes),
> and when due, the message could be moved back to it's original location.
>
> The advantage of this approach is that snoozed messages can also be
> checked from other mail programs (I am thinking about an imap backend
> for gmail), although only with missing information on due dates / times.

I like this idea, at least as an option, precisely so that the messages
would also appear "snoozed" when viewed with other IMAP clients (like
cell phones).

I also like the idea of storing the snooze information in a header when
possible.  This *can* be done with nnimap, which can edit messages by
deleting the old one and creating a new one.  And if you are already
copying the message to another folder, the header could be added at
the same time.

The registry has some auto-pruning features, which always makes me
worried about storing important information there.

Dan