Re: Mutt/Gnus hybrid for mail?

[Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>]

Thanks very much for all the excellent suggestions. However, I think
perhaps I need to clarify what I'm missing.

1) Deleting

In mutt, when I'm looking at a message with what mutt calls the "index"
at the top, and "pager" at the bottom, analagous to gnus' Summary and
Article buffers, I can, with a single keystroke

1) move to and read the next message, or
2) move to and read the next unread message, or
3) delete the current message, and move to and read the next message.

I want to be able to either save or delete (expire) a message and open
the next one automatically. Frankly, it seems weird to me that gnus
moves the cursor in the Summary buffer to the next message, but still
displays the message I just expired in the Article buffer.

If I'm on the last message in the mutt index and I delete that, mutt
simply closes the 'pager' view and just displays the index view for the
whole screen.

2) Opening a group/mailbox

In mutt, when I open a mailbox (group), I see an index of all the
messages in the mailbox, with the cursor positioned at the first unread,
if any. I like that, but I'd settle for seeing all of the threads
containing any unread messages. As I understand it,
gnus-fetch-old-headers is supposed to do that, but I haven't found a way
to make it work, at least with Fastmail.fm IMAP.

For extra credit, in mutt's index (Summar) view, I can very easily
filter the list of messages with a few keystrokes. For instance, if I
type lpfd, I'll see just a list of messages whose headers contain
"pfd". Of course, this is not especially useful in gnus since the
Summary buffer doesn't show me a long list of earlier messages, but if I
could make that happen, it would be very useful.

Thanks again!

-pd