Re: Groups which have new mails

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE]

Danny Siu <dsiu@Adobe.COM> writes:

  > I wonder how people use marks on mail groups for the purpose of
  > keeping articles and indicating an need-to-be-late article.

I'm not a Gnus expert, but here's what I do:

I do not use total-expire.  Fresh articles are unmarked.  After I read
a message, I decide what I want to do with it:
  - If it's a todo item for me, I tick it.
  - If I want to keep it, it stays marked as read.
  - If I want to delete it, I mark it as expirable.

This way, the Group buffer only shows groups with articles that I need
to deal with.  Also, after entering a group, I only see messages that
I need to deal with (plus the ones from gnus-fetch-old-headers being
t, which provide context), and I can quickly tell the new ones from
the ones I've already seen before.

As to moving, you have n/p which move to an unmarked article, and N/P
which consider read articles, too.  But moving could be improved.

As to reading lots of old articles being slow, well, I usually provide
a limit (as in `2 2 2 RET' from the Group buffer or `9 9 M-g' from the
Summary buffer).

Oh, yes, I have modified the group line format to show the number of
ticked/dormat messages (%i) as well as the number of unticked unread
messages (%y).

kai
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