Re: Email reader - anything newer/better than gnus

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On 17 Jan 2007, kai@emptydomain.de wrote:

> Some day, there will be similar features in Gnus.
>
> (For searching, there is gnus-namazu and also nnir, but they are
> different from the Opera support.  For learning auto-foldering (in
> Gnus speak, splitting), see ifile.  I vaguely remember having seen
> gnus-ifile.el somewhere...)

The gnus-registry does a good job (IMO) of catching references and
message subjects, and moving messages to the folder where those
references and message subjects went before.  It's not learning, but
it follows the user's command.

I think actual "smart" sorting of mail is dangerous.  You could end up
with misclassified mail, which is annoying (very much like
misclassified ham/spam, except it's not a binary choice so it's harder
to make).  Anyhow, spam.el had some support for ifile, but there must
be a better solution.  gnus-ifile.el hasn't been updated in a long
time.

Ted