Re: "CNET imagines the perfect e-mail client" - can Emacs be it?

[(Chris Beggy ) news@kippona.com]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> We are using an IMAP server with shared folders.  Works very nicely.
>
> If you agree on some protocol, you can even do todo lists in such
> shared folders.  We put "[TODO]" in the subject line of todo items and
> we tick the items that are not done.  When somebody signs up for an
> item, he removes that tick and makes a followup with "[TODO Kai]" (or
> similar) in the subject.  Tick marks on "[TODO Kai]" messages should
> only be frobbed by Kai.

Thanks, I like hearing about how people are using these flexible tools.

So I think tick is ! (bang).  Then the item stays in the [TODO]
thread until it is completed, at which point the tick is removed,
and the item can expire.  Does the !(bang) mark all of the way
back to the IMAP server, not just in gnus?

Is that right?

Then do you expire(expunge) it from the IMAP server as well, or just from
everyone's gnus?  Do you preserve it on the server as a record of what
has been done?  I haven't shared IMAP folders before, but I use
IMAP/nnimap.

I guess I could experiment right now...

Well, I'll send this post first.

Chris