Re: Using R-mail in Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:13:51 +0200
> 
> > That's not true, because you are supposed to delete mails you no
> > longer need, or file them to various mail folders.
> 
> Maybe but I'd rather have the system work for me instead of me having to
> work at it.  gnus will smartly auto-delete emails for me and will split
> (if desired) as well.

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?

> In any case, with good searching capabilities, I find I no longer
> split much of my email but keep it in a single "group" (aka folder).

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.

> (I'm not pushing gnus as there are plenty of other alternatives some
> people prefer.)

I'm not pushing Rmail, either.  But there's no need to denigrate a
solution if you find another solution better suited to your needs.