From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14463 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: imap strategy - how to make it like newsgroup Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:26:43 -0800 Message-ID: <87fwtfvz7w.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293737151 7511 80.91.229.12 (30 Dec 2010 19:25:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:25:51 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 30 20:25:46 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PYO88-0004ga-Br for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:25:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32905 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PYO87-0007VK-Mp for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:25:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43294 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PYO83-0007TE-8L for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:25:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PYO82-0001d7-6P for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:25:39 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:38051) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PYO81-0001cl-SM for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:25:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PYO7u-0004Yv-1M for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:25:30 +0100 Original-Received: from 70.67.160.177 ([70.67.160.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:25:30 +0100 Original-Received: from prad by 70.67.160.177 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:25:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.67.160.177 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bTMMA9hFs1KwhijeEqY6N/kXciw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14463 Archived-At: my present way of handling imap with claws-mail is to periodically transfer items from the server to a local folder. i also transfer things from my sent folder. with threading everything falls nicely into place and i can look things up efficiently. essentially it reads like a newsgroup. is there a better way now that i've switched to gnus? for instance, some people use dovecot to create a local inbox for incoming email (i imagine you can spam-filter this too). then i can have my sent items go into this folder as well instead of to a sent folder and it'll be just like newsgroup. or i could have outgoing mail go right to the server inbox to accomplish the same thing, but then i'd have to transfer everything locally at some point in time. another advantage i see with the first idea is that searching would be faster since my personal machine is much more powerful than my home server and i can use something like mairix or nnir (just heard of that one) to do indexing. i'd appreciate any thoughts on setup of this sort. we're about to move fully to gnus before the new year and it would be nice to get it right the first time! -- In friendship, prad