Re: wl newbie, various questions

[Francesco Mazzoli <f@mazzo.li>]

Hi Erik,

> I just did a quick check: WL fetches only the message headers for an
> auto-refile.
> 
> You can use `t R` to mark a thread read, `r R` to mark a region read,
> or even use `?` to search, then `m R` to mark the “picked” messages as
> read. Anyhow, it works for me with high-volume lists. Your mileage may
> vary.

Thanks for the hints, but it's still irritating to do something that I
feel should be automated. Is there any documentation related to the
hooks provided by wl? The manual seems to be lacking in that regard.

Francesco.

At Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:53:58 -0700, Erik Hetzner wrote:
> 
> Hi Francesco,
> 
> At Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:42:59 +0100,
> Francesco Mazzoli wrote:
> >
> > […]
> > 
> > Well, you definitely need the headers since the matching is done on
> > those.
> > 
> > The problem with that workflow is that I'm on some high volume mailing
> > lists that I don't follow that closely, and it's quite annoying to see
> > those messages in my inbox when I'm not interested in them.
> 
> I just did a quick check: WL fetches only the message headers for an
> auto-refile.
> 
> You can use `t R` to mark a thread read, `r R` to mark a region read,
> or even use `?` to search, then `m R` to mark the “picked” messages as
> read. Anyhow, it works for me with high-volume lists. Your mileage may
> vary.
>  
> > > 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.
> > 
> > I'd like to keep it to a single piece of software :). Considering how
> > featureful and customizable wl is, I'm sure something can be hacked to
> > do what I want.
> 
> Most likely! WL is very feature-full.
> 
> best, Erik