From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using R-mail in Emacs Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:11:23 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86a7oke0t0.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86va7afpda.fsf@zoho.com> <83musmktmv.fsf@gnu.org> <87r2hxstkw.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <837ejplc7p.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhwlzct5.fsf@gmail.com> <87d0tgh6rx.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536927203 7882 195.159.176.226 (14 Sep 2018 12:13:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:13:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 14 14:13:19 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 1g0myM-0001wN-Lo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:13:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51520 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0n0T-0005F9-3Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:15:29 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.redatomik.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: onLrbz09yV+MU3RaxdbMkg.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:bHZPgIn1MHZICyJSffre+7DqUp4= Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:223783 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:117908 Archived-At: Loris Bennett wrote: > Does an email from my wife about school need > to be filed in "family" or "school"? > Similar but more subtle situations occur with > my work mail. The directory approach doesn't have to deal with such tricky sorting. The more common approach, I'm sure, is to have mail.misc, mail.sent, drafts, gmane.emacs.help, gmane.emacs.gnus.general, rec.bicycles.tech, and so on, to name but a few example from my own system. To split the mails into directories based on who they are from can be done easily with Gnus, if one would really want to. But to split them based on content cannot ever be done to work flawlessly and I'd disencourage anyone to try as it would be a one-way ticket to the mental institution. To even split it based on the subject line (the occurence of the word "school", for example) would fail for "old-school science fiction" or whatever. Over-engineering that wouldn't work and even if it did would have a dubious benefit. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573