Rasmus <ras...@gmx.us> writes: > Say you have a mail X that's semi-interesting. Do you then, read it, > mark it as unread, close the buffer, go back later, read it again and > unread it?
I once used Gnus as a reader who tremendously helped me at handling the high email volume of email I got when I maintained many GNU packages (the Translation Project and also "tar" were pretty generative!) and following lots of newsgroups. Now that I got out of maintenance, Gnus as a mail reader is a bit of overkill, but I still use it to peruse archives I collected on many subjects, in about a thousand of nnfolders. Searching them all is often convenient. Normally, I only delete articles from one of these archives when I decide to ponder it whole and clean it up, and then read articles one after another the normal Gnus way. Otherwise, I prefer them untouched even if casually consulted, postponing the cleanup until I get motivation and a good chunk of time. For the detail, when not in clean mode, I often unread an article just after having read it, or when I know I am perusing a lot, just let them read but quit by "Q" instead of "q", which reverts all the marks. >From an hits buffer generated by org-grep, I can get many hits of many kinds (Org, non-Org, mailboxes or mailgroups), and while checking many of these links in speedy mode, it slows me down considerably if I have to stay alert and careful at unreading Gnus articles among the rest, and fairly dangerous if I get tired and stop being careful. François
