Splitting mail between offlineimap folders

Splitting mail between offlineimap folders

[Jens Bäckman]

Hi,

I'm trying to move most of my life to Emacs, and have just started
dipping my toes in Gnus. The first real obstacle is mail splitting. I
have created a rule that looks OK, `Query respool (B q)' tells me it
would go to the correct box but `Respool article (B r)' does nothing
useful.

Relevant parts of my .emacs file:

  (setq gnus-select-method
        '(nnmaildir "titv"
                    (directory "~/mail/titv/")))

  (setq nnmail-split-methods
        '(("INBOX.Redmine" "^From:.*redmine@titv.se")
          ("INBOX" "")))

What I'm trying to accomplish:
 - move all Redmine mails to INBOX.Redmine, an existing folder
 - leave everything else in the INBOX
So far, it's not doing much. I can move them manually with `B m', but
manual labor isn't really my thing.
--
Jens

Re: Splitting mail between offlineimap folders

[Emanuel Berg]

jens@titv.se (Jens Bäckman) writes:

> I'm trying to move most of my life to Emacs, and have
> just started dipping my toes in Gnus. The first real
> obstacle is mail splitting. I have created a rule
> that looks OK, `Query respool (B q)' tells me it
> would go to the correct box but `Respool article (B
> r)' does nothing useful.

When you hit B r, does it ask what backend to use? What
answer do you give, and what happens next?

> Relevant parts of my .emacs file:
>
>   (setq gnus-select-method '(nnmaildir "titv"
> (directory "~/mail/titv/")))
>
>   (setq nnmail-split-methods '(("INBOX.Redmine"
> "^From:.*redmine@titv.se") ("INBOX" "")))
>
> What I'm trying to accomplish: - move all Redmine mails
> to INBOX.Redmine, an existing folder - leave everything
> else in the INBOX So far, it's not doing much. I can
> move them manually with `B m', but manual labor isn't
> really my thing.

Of course, this is possible to automatize. I have
virtually what you ask for up and running, but I use
nnml, which I have as a secondary select method,
because I use Gnus not only for mail... - anyway, it
looks like this:

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '((nnml ""))
      mail-user-agent 'gnus-user-agent
      read-mail-command 'gnus)

(setq nnmail-split-methods
 '(("mail.spam" "^X-Spam-Flag: YES")
   ;; ...
   ("mail.comp.w3m" "^Subject:.*emacs-w3m.*")
   ("mail.misc" "") ))

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Re: Splitting mail between offlineimap folders

[Jens Bäckman]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> jens@titv.se (Jens Bäckman) writes:
>
>> I'm trying to move most of my life to Emacs, and have
>> just started dipping my toes in Gnus. The first real
>> obstacle is mail splitting. I have created a rule
>> that looks OK, `Query respool (B q)' tells me it
>> would go to the correct box but `Respool article (B
>> r)' does nothing useful.
>
> When you hit B r, does it ask what backend to use? What
> answer do you give, and what happens next?

The backend prompt has nnmaildir as default. I select that, and the mail
is marked with G (canceled article). I exit the summary buffer and
return to the group list, and can quickly see that the mail hasn't been
moved at all.

>> Relevant parts of my .emacs file:
>>
>>   (setq gnus-select-method '(nnmaildir "titv"
>> (directory "~/mail/titv/")))
>>
>>   (setq nnmail-split-methods '(("INBOX.Redmine"
>> "^From:.*redmine@titv.se") ("INBOX" "")))
>>
>> What I'm trying to accomplish: - move all Redmine mails
>> to INBOX.Redmine, an existing folder - leave everything
>> else in the INBOX So far, it's not doing much. I can
>> move them manually with `B m', but manual labor isn't
>> really my thing.
>
> Of course, this is possible to automatize. I have
> virtually what you ask for up and running, but I use
> nnml, which I have as a secondary select method,
> because I use Gnus not only for mail... - anyway, it
> looks like this:
>
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>       '((nnml ""))
>       mail-user-agent 'gnus-user-agent
>       read-mail-command 'gnus)
>
> (setq nnmail-split-methods
>  '(("mail.spam" "^X-Spam-Flag: YES")
>    ;; ...
>    ("mail.comp.w3m" "^Subject:.*emacs-w3m.*")
>    ("mail.misc" "") ))

I use Gnus for news as well - even if this is the only group I'm
currently subscribed to. :-) Just thought it was irrelevant for my mail
use situation. Running Gnus from git HEAD, if that's interesting.

In the end, I solved my problem by writing a little Python script called
after offlineimap has finished syncronizing my mail. Any new mail is
automagically moved to the correct IMAP maildir, and everything works
fine.
--
Jens


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