Re: automatically splitting conversations

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

I have devised a patch for Gnus which does the following: whenever a
message is written to a group, Gnus memorizes the message id and the
group name.  There is a function which looks at the References header
of an incoming message and searches the memorized message ids for a
group name.  If a group name is found, it is returned.  If non is
found, nil is returned.

This does what you want, I think: you just `B m' the message into a
group, and all followups (and followups to the followups) go into that
group by default.

For the patch to work, you have to set nnmail-treat-duplicates to a
non-nil value.  And then you have to use the function
nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent in your split method.  I use
nnmail-split-fancy, as follows:

(setq nnmail-treat-duplicates 'delete) ;you might prefer `warn'
(setq nnmail-split-methods 'nnmail-split-fancy)
(setq nnmail-split-fancy '(| (: nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent)
                             ...other splits go here...))

I think the patch was integrated into Gnus on 2000-04-21, so it should
be in Gnus 5.8.6.

Hm.  I wonder if this is documented.  Hm.  No, apparently not.  This
is bad.  Please tell me how it goes when you try this.  I might need
your experience for writing the documentation.  Thanks!

kai
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