From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23569 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: some mail annoyances Date: 25 Jun 1999 16:51:02 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <4yn1xp7ytu.fsf@sgichr.fastweb.no> <14195.59371.224963.121057@ralf.serv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161278 2730 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:47:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:47:58 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA01013 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 19:55:17 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAB10673; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:51:35 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:52:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA10367 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:52:09 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (qmailr@mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA00943 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 19:51:09 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 17029 invoked from network); 25 Jun 1999 23:51:22 -0000 Original-Received: from pm3-6-42.la.networkone.net (HELO satellite.local.lan) (reader@209.144.125.106) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 25 Jun 1999 23:51:22 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by satellite.local.lan (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA00927; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:51:03 -0700 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Ken McGlothlen's message of "Fri, 25 Jun 1999 13:34:51 -0700 (PDT)" Original-Lines: 43 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070083 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.83) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23569 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23569 -----8< snip > Well, lessee. I have over 400 mail folders comprising over 100MB of > email, all in mbox format. I need to conveniently transfer messages > between folders (I do occasionally reorganize folders). I do use > procmail, but only use it to break out mailing list from personal > mail---if I were to use GNUS, I'd like to shuttle it all into > appropriate folders, but don't know how to do it in some cases. > (For example, mail from userA to me should go in the userA folder, > but mail from userA to me *and* userB, userC, userD and userE should > go in the groupZ folder.) The deletion/expiration stuff can be a > bit confusing; A small point here, about splitting: I believe gnus "fancy splitting" can handle that setup, but if you are already familiar with procmail, then why not use procmail to do the more complicated splitting. Procamil can easily handle the problem you present because you can list as many conditions as you like in a single rule. Gnus can be made to slurp from procmail created spools, putting the messages into similarly named gnus groups. The deletion expiration stuff is a bit confusing but becomes less so if you kind of forget deletion as an option, like you would on an nntp group. Think of deletion as something taken care of by a "higher power" and you just guide its hand as to when with your expiry. Not quite that simple, but as I understand it, if you leave gnus in default settings then nothing in mail gets expired unless you explicitly mark it for expiry with an "E" and then only in about 7 days when the "higher power" kicks in. Taking a word of advice from Karl K. I've switched the bindings of "E" (gnus-summary-mark-as-expirabl) and "e" (gnus-summary-edit-article) Since expiring is much more common function for me. That makes it easier to mark as `expirable', since no is needed