From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using R-mail in Emacs Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:13:51 +0200 Organization: On the Interweb somewhere Message-ID: <87r2hxstkw.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> References: <86va7afpda.fsf@zoho.com> <83musmktmv.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536826353 22727 195.159.176.226 (13 Sep 2018 08:12:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 08:12:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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 10:12:29 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 1g0Mjk-0005ou-ON for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:12:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41030 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0Mlq-00037J-BQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 04:14:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35788) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0MlP-00037D-Qr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 04:14:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0MlI-0006J2-3v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 04:14:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43949 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0MlG-0006IE-2Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 04:14:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g0Mj5-00050U-9F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:11:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org X-Url: http://twitter.com/ericsfraga/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:NMEQQMXAEQAg9CxxiFyTYnLWAyw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:117880 Archived-At: On Thursday, 13 Sep 2018 at 05:39, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Emanuel Berg >> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 22:10:57 +0200 > >> >> One key aspect where Rmail is failing >> is it collects all the emails into a single >> file. This will soon be unmanageably big. > > 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. 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). (I'm not pushing gnus as there are plenty of other alternatives some people prefer.) -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.1.13 on Debian buster/sid