From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using R-mail in Emacs Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:53:30 +0300 Message-ID: <8336udla8l.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86va7afpda.fsf@zoho.com> <83musmktmv.fsf@gnu.org> <87r2hxstkw.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <837ejplc7p.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhwlzct5.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536850333 13060 195.159.176.226 (13 Sep 2018 14:52:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:52:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 13 16:52:09 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g0SyW-0003IU-Jh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:52:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42898 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0T0c-0004xT-TK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:54:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55597) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0T0E-0004xJ-Uo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:53:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0T08-0004EU-Da for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:53:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36789) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0T04-0004Dx-Nu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:53:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1028 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1g0T03-00006Q-66 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:53:43 -0400 In-reply-to: <87zhwlzct5.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:34:14 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117890 Archived-At: > From: Robert Pluim > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:34:14 +0200 > > > You mean, Gnus can know when you have no more use of some email > > message and it can be discarded? How does it do that? > > It does (at least) time based auto-expiration. Probably score based as > well [1], plus you can mark messages as expirable/unexpirable. The oldest email in my INBOX is from 18 years ago, and I still need it from time to time. I guess time-based expiration is not for me. > > When you have no good idea what to search for, having related email > > messages together in the same folder will help finding what you are > > looking for faster. So I find that some classification is still > > useful, although I have search capabilities set up that can find any > > email in split-seconds. > > Iʼm also a fan of the 'big ball of email' model. Filing stuff into > sub-folders just makes me forget where I put it. I don't have a lot of folders: less than 2 dozen. Rmail is customized to automatically guess the right folder given certain keywords in a message, and it guesses right with high probability. My experience is that the classification into a small number of folders helps a lot to find material, so I guess to each one their own.