Using gnus with gmail: almost there

[Carlos <carlosjosepita@gmail.com>]

Hi all, it's my first day with gnus and I'm pretty happy with the level of 
integration I was able to achieve with gmail imap. Nevertheless, there are a 
few quirks remaining and any help from the experienced users here would be 
very much appreciated. Let's see:

1) I would like to include my sent emails in the threads where they belong, 
like in the "conversation" view gmail offers. 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.

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).

Well, I think that's all for the time being. Thank you in advance.

Cheers
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Carlos