Re: getting nndiary to work

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org> writes:

>   Just to give you a concrete example: I receive a Call for Papers by
> mail or news. What I'm doing right now is copy the message to my
> [nn]diary:conferences group, and set up the X-Diary headers to the
> deadline. What I would prefer to do is exactly the same, except that the
> message would stay in its original group.

Some things come to mind (just to give you some ideas):

Save information about a message in an additional file. That could
include reminder settings as well as comments. Perhaps headers could be
used for such information, or headers could point to the file that holds
additional information about the message.

Make use of links. Gnus could create a link in an nndiary group to point
to your message calling for papers. Something like that ...

Use "internal" messages gnus sends itself: Instead of copying your
conference message to an nndiary group, have gnus send itself a message
telling it that it needs to remind you of the message calling for
papers. You would just tell gnus that you want to be reminded of this
particular message, and gnus transparently does whatever is needed. ---
This might require introducing some sort of unique message ID for every
message and ways to find messages by their unique IDs. It might get a
little hairy when you have told gnus to remind you of a message and
later you happen to expire the message you wanted to be reminded of ...