From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: iny+dev@iki.fi (Ilpo =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nyyss=F6nen?=)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:09:42 +0300
Subject: [sup-talk] Handling big mailing lists
Message-ID: <m3zlaovx3t.fsf@iny.iki.fi>


I'm searching alternatives for my Gnus email + news setup. I don't
expect Sup to be able to do everything Gnus can yet, but maybe in
future? :) Note that I have never used Gmail.

I tried to test Sup, but I wasn't able to get any emails because Sup
failed to login to my IMAP server. This happened because the server
requires client certificates and it looks like Sup doesn't support
those.

The bigger question is about handling big amount of mailing list mail. 
I'm reading many small mailing lists and some big ones. Biggest is
linux-kernel. I can split this to two: daily reading routine and
expiration.

How would my daily reading routine work with Sup? I want to read
things in priority order:

1. Personal email
2. Emails related to my programming hobby
3. Emails related to some associations like user groups
4. Mailing lists, also in priority order

The order is such that if I need to stop reading, I have read the most
important ones already. The order is not static, I want to be able to
change it.

I have understood that labels are way to get this kind of grouping. 
Can I get a view where the labels are sorted like this? And can I
continue reading the next label in that order after I have finished
the one before?

Then about the expiration. The linux-kernel mailing list gets so much
email that some kind of expiration is a must. Can Sup do such
automatic deleting of old emails? Can Sup handle some other process
doing such automatic deletion? (I would actually prefer some other
process do it.)

I'm mostly reading just only few authors from linux-kernel and skipping
rest, but I do like to see the rest in the thread view as sometimes some
subject is interesting and sometimes some thread gets big and is
interesting because of that. How would this work?

I would actually recommend reading linux-kernel to test Sup. :)

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Ilpo Nyyss?nen # biny # /* :-) */