From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rasmus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Handling mail Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:26:36 +0200 Message-ID: <87ei1rjqfn.fsf@gmail.com> References: <19998.64601.266213.844826@phoenix.squirrel.nl> <87tyanfp4o.fsf@gmx.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310762147 22288 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2011 20:35:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:35:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 15 22:35:43 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qhp6s-00021C-RI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:35:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44386 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qhp6r-0001Gv-Sw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:35:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37919) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qhowf-00085b-4k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:25:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qhowd-0002Ww-Uu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:25:08 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:42524) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qhowd-0002VN-0Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:25:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qhowa-000527-OU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:25:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 0x555293e1.adsl.cybercity.dk ([85.82.147.225]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:25:04 +0200 Original-Received: from rasmus by 0x555293e1.adsl.cybercity.dk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:25:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 61 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 0x555293e1.adsl.cybercity.dk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwCAAAAAByaaZbAAAAAmJLR0QA/4ePzL8AAAAJcEhZ cwAAAEgAAABIAEbJaz4AAAIMSURBVEjHvZbLleswDEPDjlgKOkEnKAWFoBYW8RayEydRJvM246WO rkjw61v953f7M6DRIFlVBUeSJAIfAYCSLdmWk0QCuj8BTUpKrCQzEfuLSw3IiZRJ1L8S3czYMc8D VH+JkuKMUFXV8kzid9euAOyZiKjqhkRKb+7dqqoosquq9fJsg682LhpQ1Y4toTSnsFfi4pK6SpJo wqMqopoStnmoaldBImgRVCSSErm3QKIKJAGKlGxbfiuQszRIdBVAAAS16iOxXkQ8Mo0jKsR6P5mZ xNoA3QD6AEDK8mFhD1T3chQkAMpJDsTWRsPpEUX0ASRJJtkCIPHIeB+XZ5ngO9AAu6plk6jynF8m vpcTLgBZVcpMzC7Og3g0U9R9ACBV6+HEAi/3fTYITeEOSFXFjAUQugI6AEe8u0RZVVVo2oKzAWZd uR0z4zAM6Z7lmYm9TxyOU655tPIwyWeARyfLJrW4lW57XxqrhSyvVyVatmNb22o9tMuZWLIkKbb2 Fup+2A1099KffAaeGnGVSZzVctsW9arvZncDa3Am0iquLbCKSpRFyqfiT8CSDZz3EzuWVq9/3kD9 aLjY8jegu7rB5Y9Mifi+43oNDWvj0DuAopZkiW+D9QXoLhK0csjdLbnbs+RV3ZYJ9LmB+kdghUcX 5/tJxwtAre17GcBN/BDWNSqvsemXSP3dv8avv39wgAhOeVDQLwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Cancel-Lock: sha1:lDw/LZ0X84y2iPdue1Rcq1jBJig= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81607 Archived-At: > Gnus, yes. But BBDB? > > "BBDB 2.35 is the current stable released version, released on > January 30, 2007." > > Seems rather old to me... > > I treat mail and news as two different sources of information. We all do. Gnus will treat mail different than news if you want. (I use a local Dovecot IMAP server + offlineimap for mail, gwene for RSS and Gmane and some local news-server for news). > For mail, every message stays in my mailbox until I explicitly file or > delete it. When I tried Gnus to read mail (years ago) I couldn't get it > to just leave the messages. After reading a message it must be kept > explictly otherwise it's gone. You may set a flag in certain groups (I don't remember it at the moment). If this is set old mails will be shown. Whenever I enter a mail-group 200 articles are shown. If I want to show more I may using M-u RET, but usually IMAP search is better (G G). > - Automatically infer the name of the file to save a message into, > depending on the sender name (and using the mail-folder property in > the BBDB, if any). Check out Gnus posting style (built in) or Gnus Alias. The latter is much easier to use. > - In the summary, display the name of the recipient if the sender is me > ('me' being a list of mail addresses). This is particularly handy > since I save BCC's of outgoing messages in my primary mailbox. There are some variables and functions concerned with your mail. I have never used them. > - Automatically (or on demand) change my from, reply-to, selected > headers and signature depending on which of my email addresses the > message was sent to. Again, Gnus Alias or Gnus Posting style will do what you want. For example using Gnus-Alias my name and mail is changed when I post to a news-group. Inspecting my from line the proper SMTP server is chosen. > I guess I have to bite the bullit and throw away my VM and Gnus config > and start from scratch, using the features that are available now. You will be very happy. (My Gnus config is a mere 400 lines :) –Rasmus -- Sent from my Emacs