From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1823 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: gnus agent and copy/move articles Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:41:33 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Message-ID: <8465sxypua.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: <526fcee1.0301042255.55d49f2c@posting.google.com> <844r8nfx95.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <526fcee1.0301051124.550dc518@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668477 12844 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:47:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:47:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:45 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!p50876b0f.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p50876b0f.dip.t-dialin.net (80.135.107.15) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1042213319 18216201 80.135.107.15 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090011 (Oort Gnus v0.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZsO+qxRJ29zojWMGLqLFWl5klTs= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1963 Original-Lines: 40 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1963 Tue Jan 17 17:29:45 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1823 Archived-At: john_owens@yahoo.com (John Owens) writes: > I'm trying to wrap my mind around how gnus is used in agent mode. > I'm thinking about moving from a more conventional mailer (mostly > because of this disconnected operation capability), and it > would seem to me that if I'm on the road I would want a bunch of > messages in an inbox that I would reply to then file in disconnected > mode. > > To do that would seem to require the ability to move messages > between folders (i.e. from inbox to saved-folder). But perhaps the > gnus way of doing things would be different? I guess that most Gnus users use splitting. This might be called filtering in other mail clients. It means that Gnus looks at each incoming message and then automatically files it into the right folder, according to some rulse you specify. If splitting puts all mails into the right folders, then manually moving messages is not necessary. Gnus' splitting is quite powerful. > Alternatively, any plans to add this functionality in the future? Of course, automatic splitting will never work perfectly, so surely being able to move messages while offline is a good idea. However, it is not easy to implement it. I found an easy way to implement it, but it suffers from the disadvantage that you wouldn't be able to see the effect of moving the message while you are offline. (That is, the message disappears from the source folder right away, gets stashed in a temp folder while you're offline, and only arrives in the target folder when you go back online.) Clearly, this is not desirable. Doing it right is much more difficult. If you think you have some ideas for the implementation (you don't need to know the source to have ideas), then please feel free to suggest something. -- Ambibibentists unite!