Re: Snoozing a message in gnus?

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> TM> Is there an idiomatic way to implement this?  I'm thinking of writing
> TM> two functions:
> TM> - first marks the article as dormant and adds a header like
> TM> X-Snooze-Until
> TM> - second goes in  `gnus-select-group-hook' and maybe marks the article
> TM> unread + ticked if the header date is past
>
> You can't add a header to most backends, especially IMAP, because they
> don't support article editing. The gnus-registry is pretty much the only
> way inside Gnus (or you can use Org, as suggested) to add new metadata
> like that. The rest seems OK.

The problem with `gnus-select-group-hook' is that due articles would
become un-snoozed only when selecting the respective group.  And why
should one select a group if it hasn't unread articles?  So the
un-snoozing has to happen globally either periodically in a timer or at
least in `gnus-after-getting-new-news-hook'.

Bye,
Tassilo