gmail-like mail backend?

[Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>]

I've come to really like the gmail notion of "groups" (really called
"labels") actually just being views into a big pool of messages, so that
a single message can easily exist in many groups, and things that happen
to that message (mark it as read, delete it) are immediately visible in
all relevant groups.  Another nice thing (in general) is that it ends to
operate on threads as a whole, rather than individual messages; e.g., if
you add a particular "label" to a thread, subsequent replies that arrive
in that same thread show up in all relevant labels/groups, without the
need to add classify them.  Moving threads around is very lightweight.

I wonder how hard would it be to have somethings niceness in gnus?

Gnus already has the notion of crossposts from news, but the pervasive
use of group-specific article-number ranges seems somewhat problematic.

Anyway just food for thought.  I like using Emacs to read email a lot
more than using a web-browser, but Gnus is seeming a bit clunky at the
moment compared to gmail...

-Miles
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