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 17:10:50 +0300 Message-ID: <837ejplc7p.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86va7afpda.fsf@zoho.com> <83musmktmv.fsf@gnu.org> <87r2hxstkw.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536847790 7558 195.159.176.226 (13 Sep 2018 14:09:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:09:50 +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 16:09:46 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 1g0SJV-0001pG-N6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:09:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42722 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0SLb-0003BN-Ln for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:11:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42509) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0SKq-00035J-Im for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:11:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0SKl-0007s7-DW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:11:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35624) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0SKl-0007s0-9r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:11:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2249 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1g0SKk-0006ZU-Sc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:11:03 -0400 In-reply-to: <87r2hxstkw.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> (message from Eric S Fraga on Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:13:51 +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:117886 Archived-At: > From: Eric S Fraga > 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.