Re: still want Seen articles split...

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 17:55:19 +0000 Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: 

ESF> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
ESF> [...]

>> I can't really take it out of there, because IIUC that will resplit all
>> the messages in INBOX every single time I sync, which would be bad. 

ESF> This would only be bad if splitting leaves messages in INBOX.  My
ESF> solution to this problem was to ensure that all emails are moved to
ESF> other folders when splitting, leaving INBOX empty each time.  For those
ESF> emails that you would normally have left in INBOX, create a "general"
ESF> folder and move them there.

ESF> Alternatively, do the splitting on the server instead of in gnus.

ESF> Both approaches can work -- I've done both and, in fact, currently use a
ESF> combination of the two.  On the server, I split those emails I would
ESF> seldom, if ever, want to look at on a mobile device.  Gnus splits all
ESF> others, seen or not.

I keep everything from one account in a single INBOX to keep it
manageable with other tools, but another account is always split into
folders.  Both approaches make sense in context.

I can't think of a good general solution, sorry.  A gnus-seen flag would
help but not in every situation.

Ted