Re: Using gnus with gmail: almost there

[Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita@gmail.com>]

Hi Tassilo,

gcc-self is indeed a great tip, thank you!

As you've become sort of my guru now, I'm asking you further: I'm
having a hard time trying to match my primary method groups by prefix,
as in "imap.*"; the problem is that these groups don't show the method
prefix, only the secondary ones, but I really want to get a similar
behavior for all my primary select method without having to match on a
per group basis. Is that possible?

Regards
--
Carlos

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:
> Carlos <carlosjosepita@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Carlos,
>
>> 1) I would like to include my sent emails in the threads where they
>> belong, like in the "conversation" view gmail offers.
>
> I do the same.
>
>> There is a suggestion somewhere in the net to create a virtual group
>> merging the inbox and the sent mail groups, but this will only work
>> for threads in the inbox. Another option is to add a copy of any sent
>> mail to the current group, i.e. something like:
>>
>> (setq gnus-message-archive-group (lambda (g) (concat "nnimap+gmail:" g)))
>>
>> But this has some problems: 1.i) I don't know how to do this *only* for the
>> gmail server. 1.ii) Obviously it doesn't work for emails sent from the
>> webmail.
>>
>> Nevertheless, being able to solve 1.i alone would be very good news for me.
>
> Have a look at the `gcc-self' group parameter.
>
> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Group Parameters") ]
> | ‘gcc-self’
> |      If ‘(gcc-self . t)’ is present in the group parameter list, newly
> |      composed messages will be ‘Gcc’’d to the current group.  If
> |      ‘(gcc-self . none)’ is present, no ‘Gcc:’ header will be generated,
> |      if ‘(gcc-self . "string")’ is present, this string will be inserted
> |      literally as a ‘gcc’ header.  This parameter takes precedence over
> |      any default ‘Gcc’ rules as described later (*note Archived
> |      Messages::), with the exception for messages to resend.
> |
> |      *Caveat*: Adding ‘(gcc-self . t)’ to the parameter list of ‘nntp’
> |      groups (or the like) isn’t valid.  An ‘nntp’ server doesn’t accept
> |      articles.
> `----
>
> Here's my gcc-self related settings:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (setq gnus-parameters
>       `((,(rx "nnimap+")
>          (gcc-self . t))
>         ;; Mailing List exceptions
>         (,(rx "nnimap+Uni:ml/")
>          (gcc-self . "nnimap+Uni:Sent"))
>         (,(rx "nnimap+Fastmail:INBOX.mailinglists.")
>          (gcc-self . "nnimap+Fastmail:INBOX.Sent Items"))))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> So I gcc the current group for all my IMAP accounts, except for mailing
> list groups, where I gcc the account's sent mail folder.
>
> To have that only for your Gmail account, you would change the regex to
> something like ,(rx "nnimap+Gmail") or whatever you've named your gmail
> account.
>
>> 2) I would like to postpone a message directly to a remote group
>> (ideally, the gmail drafts folder). Currently I'm able to locally
>> postpone a message and then move it to the remote group. A way to
>> automate this is what I can't come with (or, better, to directly store
>> the draft in the remote group, which I'm afraid is not possible).
>
> I think this question pops up here once in a while, but so far nobody
> seems to have implemented that feature.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo