From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Subject: Re: How to use Maildir for everything? How to duplicate behaviour of mutt?
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:30:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3655zdbso.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ekkrjpzm.fsf@heresy.ainola.jyu.fi>
Juhapekka Tolvanen <FUBAR.juhtolv@iki.fi.SNAFU.invalid> wrote:
> First thing I need is this: When I hit "o" to save my News article, I
> want to save it that article to ~/News so that each group has one
> Maildir-folder.
Apparently there is no maildir-format saver function. But you could
use B c to copy an article to an nnmaildir group. So you could put
together a command that creates the nnmaildir group corresponding to
the current group, if it doesn't already exist, and then calls
gnus-summary-copy-article to put the article there.
> And how can I convert those News articles I already have there to
> Maildir-format? According to file-command they are in emacs
> RMAIL-format.
You could temporarily create an nnbabyl server to access those as Gnus
groups, and use B c to copy the articles to nnmaildir groups.
> [When I stop reading my INBOX, read mails are moved to
> ~/Maildir.save/read/ if I give permission.]
I think you could do something like that with auto-expire in your
inbox group, with the "read" group as the expiry target. I'm not sure
if you could make it prompt you for moving the messages, though.
> [When I leave text editor, and decide to postpone sending my E-Mail, it
> is saved to ~/Maildir.save/postponed/ if don't give permission for
> cancelling that E-Mail]
Gnus has a specialized backend for drafts. It's not maildir, but it
does use one file per message.
> [When I send my E-Mail, a copy of it is saved to
> ~/Maildir.save/sent-mail-YYYY-MM where YYYY is substituted with number
> of year and YY is substituted with number of month (leading zero included)]
That can be done with a little Lisp. I've never done it, so I don't
know the details.
> my_hdr From: Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@cc.jyu.fi>
> my_hdr Reply-To: Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@iki.fi>
>
> [Those headers are added to each mail]
I do this with posting styles, but there are other ways too.
> [during editing I can edit all headers, too]
I think that's always true in Gnus, except there are some fields like
Date and Message-ID that are regenerated when you send the message.
> # If unset and you are replying to a message sent by you, Mutt will
> # assume that you want to reply to the recipients of that message
> # rather than to yourself.
If you use followup instead of reply, Gnus will construct a message
addressed to the sender and recipients, but then will remove your own
address.
> [First ignore all headers when reading some E-Mail]
...
> [Then unignore some headers]
See the variable gnus-visible-headers.
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnmaildir ""))
Make that:
(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
'(nnmaildir "" (directory "~/Maildir.save")))
> (add-to-list 'mail-sources '(maildir :path "/var/mail/juhtolv/" :subdirs ("cur" "new") ) )
>
> But I don't want it to delete mail from my INBOX when I stop reading
> it. I want to copy each mail manually to right folder.
Then you should access that maildir as an nnmaildir group, not a
mail-source. You can make a symlink like ~/Maildir.save/inbox ->
/var/mail/juhtolv.
> BTW is Gnus the only emacs-based MUA Maildir-support?
There's also VM, perhaps others as well.
paul
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-27 14:30 UTC|newest]
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2004-09-27 14:30 ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2004-09-27 16:31 ` Juhapekka Tolvanen
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[not found] ` <85wtycy7ne.fsf@obelix.seki.fr>
[not found] ` <87acv8jprb.fsf@heresy.ainola.jyu.fi>
2004-09-30 19:32 ` Juhapekka Tolvanen
2004-10-01 8:05 ` Sebastien Kirche
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