From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: using bbdb in split methods
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:10:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vcscr9dg.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sjnhsm05.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:39:38 -0500")
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:49:41 +0100 Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> ESF> I get way too much email (don't we all?) but using gnus with splitting
> ESF> helps tremendously in tackling this problem. I use fancy splitting and
> ESF> everything works just fine. The majority of my emails get sent to
> ESF> appropriate mail folders (work colleagues, mailing lists, etc.) and I'm
> ESF> pretty happy with his. However, I still have a "catch all" folder that
> ESF> takes any emails that have not been split off. This still ends up being
> ESF> too big and I'm forced to look at it more often than I would like.
>
> ESF> I would like to further split emails that would end up here without
> ESF> having to write any more rules based on specific "from" entries. What I
> ESF> would like ideally is to be able to split off emails if the "from" or
> ESF> even the "to" addresses are one that are known to BBDB, implying
> ESF> messages from or to people I know or that I have corresponded with in
> ESF> the past.
>
> Eric, after the BBDB split you can split further with the Gnus registry,
> using the parent message-ID from the references, then the subject and
> the sender and the recipients. It works well for me though of course I
> still have leftovers. The parent splitting is absolutely essential.
Ted,
thanks for this. I guess it's time I started looking at the registry,
one of the aspects of gnus that I have yet to investigate.
Nevertheless, being able to split using bbdb has made all the
difference! I am less concerned about the left over entries now.
Thanks again,
eric
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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 + No Gnus v0.18
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-05 7:49 Eric S Fraga
2011-09-05 10:13 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-09-05 13:02 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-09-06 7:55 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-09-07 2:24 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-09-07 8:08 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-09-07 11:00 ` Rasmus
2011-09-07 15:03 ` David Engster
2011-09-27 21:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-28 15:10 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
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