Re: How to view sent mails in a threaded conversation (IMAP)?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> writes:

> Some mail providers give control to us. But some of them keep sent
> emails in a separate folder, often called ‘Sent Items’.
>
> In the first case, we can configure the ‘Gcc’ header via gcc-self
> gnus-parameter.
>
> In the 2nd case, where sent-emails are already stored in ‘Sent Items’,
> if I don’t want to store a redundant copy, what is the proper way to
> keep threads intact, at least in view?
>
> Some mail providers are even more notorious. Even if I keep a redundant
> copy of a sent-email in my folder of choice (‘Inbox’), they remove it
> from there after sometime; probably after matching Message-ID etc.
>
> I want to know what do Gnus users generally do to solve this. I
> understand that it is not necessary to keep it that way
> i.e. threaded. And my basic problem is not threaded conversations. The
> main problem is search and looking messages in context. So, if I can
> view all the messages in an ephemeral group then that would also solve
> my problem. In fact, that would encourage me to keep sent emails in a
> different folder instead of ‘Inbox’.

If you're willing to use ephemeral/search groups as a solution, the
easiest thing by far would be to use an nnselect group. You could either
mark INBOX and Sent and do a search like "since:2w", or not go the
search route and just have the group hold all messages from both source
groups -- I don't think there should be any particular performance
penalty for doing that, so long as you're displaying a subset of
articles, like usual.