From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42435 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Make gnus-agent another mail backend? Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 19:15:49 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <200201100209.g0A29gx29335@reader.local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177672 11356 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:21:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:21:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 24721 invoked from network); 22 Jan 2002 18:16:57 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 22 Jan 2002 18:16:57 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16T5Sy-00071f-00; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:16:16 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:16:11 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA05518 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:15:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 24711 invoked by alias); 22 Jan 2002 18:15:58 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 24706 invoked from network); 22 Jan 2002 18:15:58 -0000 Original-Received: from ingebrigtsen.no (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 Jan 2002 18:15:58 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16T5TL-0007qA-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 19:16:39 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1011723399 29946 195.204.10.148 (22 Jan 2002 18:16:39 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Jan 2002 18:16:39 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Dry Hustle's _Do It Quite Sloppily_ User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.4 (Copyleft, i386-debian-linux) X-Face: 5L4qBb3)tJ~x=P\*qVA]M{E%N!%NF![*<\EK^]y'%Dm$AV$k4LD8}+cbaYMcVKt9#x-;2zy Ky6PV='Ey%8>tu#rsSmxv5%_K0y5iL3jnwR[A5pn{\j Cancel-Lock: sha1:PuAbS6uVmR/Y8zSK1WOm3haiTww= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42435 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42435 Harry Putnam writes: > What is the difference? Would one have to do some kind of work to get > them into a state (in cache?), where this editing or other maillike > things could happen? You would press `e', and the rest would happen automatically. > If this were automated it would be very similar to what I was > suggesting I think. Yes. > I didn't understand your argument about cache the first time around > though so maybe just not `getting it'. Does cache offer the other > things that go with mail backends, like complex expiry? Editing isn't > the only thing missing in agentized messages. It would be nice to be > able to target-expire them. Especially if someone can think of a way > to base expiry on date AND score AND readedness. This isn't what the Agent is for. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen