Re: some mail annoyances

[Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>]

>>>>> Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>:

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> * In general, the Gnus defaults for mail are quite clumsy.
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> * In there any commend to re-number the messages in a mail folder?
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The major thing to remember with Gnus, is to let old habits from
earlier mail programs go, and just go with the flow and read your mail 
like it was news.

You don't want to renumber messages in a mail folder.  You don't even
want to *know* the number of a message, anymore that you want to know
the message number of a USENET message on a particular server.

What I do is use total-expiry, and set up the expiry time to four weeks 
for the mailgroups that see most traffic.  Then I just either
 - read articles and let them go
 - mark them as read with "d"
 - tick them with "u"
 - mark them dormant with "?"

In the case of the first two, the article will reside in the mail
group for four weeks and then quietly go away.  In the case of the
latter two the articles will never go away.

This lets me process mail more efficiently than earlier, because my
experience is that *if* I will need a message for later, this is most
likely to occur within the next four weeks.

Now all I need is to get Kai's search engine backend (nnir.el) up and
running...:-)