Re: wl newbie, various questions

[Erik Hetzner <egh@e6h.org>]

Hi Francesco,

At Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:58:22 +0100,
Francesco Mazzoli wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using Wanderlust for a week now and I'm quite happy with it,
> but I have a few problems that I could not figure out with the manual.
> 
> I use Wanderlust to access IMAP folders remotely, in several different
> servers. For each server I have various folders set up, and I have a
> different email address and smtp server for each IMAP server - the
> classic multiple account situation. I have a template for each email
> address.
> 
> Now, in order of importance:
> 
>   * How do I make wanderlust select the right template when replying?
>     the solution seems to be in fiddling with `wl-draft-config-alist',
>     but I couldn't come up with a reliable solution. Using
>     `wl-draft-parent-folder' works only when replying from the
>     Summary, and is quite annoying anyway since I have a complex
>     folder structure, so there isn't "one" parent folder to
>     select. The ideal thing would be to match the `Delivered-To'
>     header of the thing I'm replying to, but I haven't had much
>     success.

Keep in mind that wl-draft-config-alist is not applied until you send
the message *or* run wl-draft-config-exec (C-c C-e). Also, if you use
the reply matching for wl-draft-config-alist, I believe the header to
be matched must be stored in the msgdb. I’m not sure what fields are
stored there by default but you might try adding “Delivered” to the
elmo-msgdb-extra-fields variable. You will need to rebuild your msgdb
after: `s all` in a summary buffer.

>   * I have various rules in `wl-refile-alist' and it works great. The
>     problem is that to refile I have to fetch the messages manually to
>     get the body, and then `C-o' in the summary. Is it possible to
>     automate this process, so that it will do that immediately after
>     syncing the folders? A solution seems to be `elmo-split-rule', but
>     it looks like it is not suited for my situation in which I'm
>     filtering multiple folders, since the matching rules are all in
>     one place.

Not sure how to do this one, I imagine you can use a hook.

I personally like the workflow of wl-refile-alist. All my mails goes
to one inbox. If I don’t want to read a message, I just mark it read
(`R` in a summary buffer) and auto-refile. I don’t think you need to
fetch the body of the message to refile.

>   * Easy one: how do I mark all the messages received in a certain
>     folder automatically as read?

You might try imapfilter for this and the previous question. It lets
you write rules in lua to move messages around, mark them read, etc.
based on various conditions.

best, Erik