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Re: Using R-mail in Emacs
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Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
Re: Using R-mail in Emacs |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:34:14 +0200 |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
>> 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?
It does (at least) time based auto-expiration. Probably score based as
well [1], plus you can mark messages as expirable/unexpirable.
> 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.
Iʼm also a fan of the 'big ball of email' model. Filing stuff into
sub-folders just makes me forget where I put it.
Footnotes:
[1] Lack of features is not a problem Gnus has
- Using R-mail in Emacs, Ryan Lloyd, 2018/09/10
- Re: Using R-mail in Emacs, Emanuel Berg, 2018/09/12
- Re: Using R-mail in Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/12
- Re: Using R-mail in Emacs, Eric S Fraga, 2018/09/13
- Re: Using R-mail in Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/13
- Re: Using R-mail in Emacs,
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- Re: Using R-mail in Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/13
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- Re: Using R-mail in Emacs, Loris Bennett, 2018/09/14
- Re: Using R-mail in Emacs, Robert Pluim, 2018/09/14
- Gnus and local mirroring (was: Using R-mail in Emacs), Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/14
- Re: Gnus and local mirroring, Eric Abrahamsen, 2018/09/14
- Re: Gnus and local mirroring, Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/14
- Re: Gnus and local mirroring, Eric Abrahamsen, 2018/09/14
- Re: Gnus and local mirroring, Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/14
- Re: Gnus and local mirroring, Eric Abrahamsen, 2018/09/15
- Re: Using R-mail in Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/14