From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80088 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: using bbdb in split methods Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:10:03 +0100 Message-ID: <87vcscr9dg.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87hb4rsa22.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87sjnhsm05.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317227645 18045 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2011 16:34:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:34:05 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28382@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Sep 28 18:33:59 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R8x54-0005Y3-Bu for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:33:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1R8x3v-00019l-AQ; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:32:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1R8x3u-00019d-8W for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:32:46 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1R8x3s-0002RL-IZ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:32:46 -0500 Original-Received: from vscane-b.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.141]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R8x3o-0007EM-Ld for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:32:40 +0200 Original-Received: from [85.210.131.216] (helo=localhost) by vscane-b.ucl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1R8x3k-0004Yv-Cd for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:32:36 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87sjnhsm05.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:39:38 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Face: av6A"vZ{AypDB`d^.T35oG%$E*Qh]4F)K=*$-NHz5{7WZfAFQFB]F@gf}l9`XLs9(iD?D/! nafKE,S#G!4W/flj=9(U{]t'lP,,5~:s*~;kKR Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-UCL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the UCL Helpdesk, helpdesk@ucl.ac.uk for more information X-UCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UCL-MailScanner-From: e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80088 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:49:41 +0100 Eric S Fraga 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 -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 + No Gnus v0.18