Open rmail summarized by specific label?

Open rmail summarized by specific label?

[Marc Coquand]

Hiya,

Is there a way to open rmail summarized by a specific label?

I'd like to open it and only display unseen messages, which as I
understand it is the unseen label. 

-- 
Marc

Re: Open rmail summarized by specific label?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Marc Coquand <marc@mccd.space>
> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:56:28 +0200
> 
> Is there a way to open rmail summarized by a specific label?
> 
> I'd like to open it and only display unseen messages, which as I
> understand it is the unseen label. 

What do you mean by "open rmail"?

Re: Open rmail summarized by specific label?

[Marc Coquand]

> What do you mean by "open rmail"?
Basically launching rmail and seeing my email, I.E. ~rmail-input
rmail-file-name~.

(Sorry if I spammed you Eli, I used the reply button in the archive and
didn't realize it only replies to an individual rather than the thread)

-- 
Marc

Re: Open rmail summarized by specific label?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Marc Coquand <marc@mccd.space>
> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 09:50:14 +0200
> 
> 
> > What do you mean by "open rmail"?
> 
> Basically launching rmail and seeing my email, I.E. ~rmail-input rmail-file-name~

No, I don't think so.  If you set rmail-display-summary to a non-nil
value, rmail-input will display a summary, but it always displays the
summary of all the messages.  However, rmail-input calls rmail, and
rmail runs rmail-mode-hook, so maybe you could define your hook
function which would generate the summary you want.

Re: Open rmail summarized by specific label?

[Marc Coquand]

> No, I don't think so.  If you set rmail-display-summary to a non-nil
> value, rmail-input will display a summary, but it always displays the
> summary of all the messages.  However, rmail-input calls rmail, and
> rmail runs rmail-mode-hook, so maybe you could define your hook
> function which would generate the summary you want.

Hmm, that could be an option.

When rmail fetches new email, it also automatically opens unread email.
Once an email has been read, as I understand it, the unseen label gets
removed.

So if I use that hook, I worry the following sequence will happen:

1. I run rmail
2. rmail fetches new email, and opens the latest unseen message.
3. The unseen label gets removed from that message.
4. rmail-mode-hook runs, and my function proceeds to summarizes by
unseen messages. The latest message is never shown to me, as the unseen
label got removed before the hook run.

This would result in me actually not seeing all the unseen messages, but
I am not sure what the sequence is. C-h v rmail-mode-hook only tells me
it is invoked when Rmail is invoked.

-- 
Marc

Re: Open rmail summarized by specific label?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Marc Coquand <marc@mccd.space>
> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:06:50 +0200
> 
> 
> > No, I don't think so.  If you set rmail-display-summary to a non-nil
> > value, rmail-input will display a summary, but it always displays the
> > summary of all the messages.  However, rmail-input calls rmail, and
> > rmail runs rmail-mode-hook, so maybe you could define your hook
> > function which would generate the summary you want.
> 
> Hmm, that could be an option.
> 
> When rmail fetches new email, it also automatically opens unread email.
> Once an email has been read, as I understand it, the unseen label gets
> removed.
> 
> So if I use that hook, I worry the following sequence will happen:
> 
> 1. I run rmail
> 2. rmail fetches new email, and opens the latest unseen message.
> 3. The unseen label gets removed from that message.
> 4. rmail-mode-hook runs, and my function proceeds to summarizes by
> unseen messages. The latest message is never shown to me, as the unseen
> label got removed before the hook run.
> 
> This would result in me actually not seeing all the unseen messages, but
> I am not sure what the sequence is. C-h v rmail-mode-hook only tells me
> it is invoked when Rmail is invoked.

What's to prevent your hook from using rmail-set-attribute to "unsee"
the message shown by rmail, before you perform the summary?