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 6.8 Email Based Diary
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 This section describes a special mail back end called ‘nndiary’, and its
 companion library ‘gnus-diary’.  It is “special” in the sense that it is
 not meant to be one of the standard alternatives for reading mail with
 Gnus.  See Choosing a Mail Back End for that.  Instead, it is
 used to treat _some_ of your mails in a special way, namely, as event
 reminders.
 
    Here is a typical scenario:
 
    • You’ve got a date with Andy Mc Dowell or Bruce Willis (select
      according to your sexual preference) in one month.  You don’t want
      to forget it.
    • So you send a “reminder” message (actually, a diary one) to
      yourself.
    • You forget all about it and keep on getting and reading new mail,
      as usual.
    • From time to time, as you type ‘g’ in the group buffer and as the
      date is getting closer, the message will pop up again to remind you
      of your appointment, just as if it were new and unread.
    • Read your “new” messages, this one included, and start dreaming
      again of the night you’re gonna have.
    • Once the date is over (you actually fell asleep just after dinner),
      the message will be automatically deleted if it is marked as
      expirable.
 
    The Gnus Diary back end has the ability to handle regular
 appointments (that wouldn’t ever be deleted) as well as punctual ones,
 operates as a real mail back end and is configurable in many ways.  All
 of this is explained in the sections below.
 

Menu

 
· The NNDiary Back End        Basic setup and usage.
· The Gnus Diary Library      Utility toolkit on top of nndiary.
· Sending or Not Sending      A final note on sending diary messages.
 

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