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 8.2.8 nnmairix tips and tricks
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    • Checking Mail
 
      I put all my important mail groups at group level 1.  The mairix
      groups have group level 5, so they do not get checked at start up
      (Group Levels).
 
      I use the following to check for mails:
 
           (defun my-check-mail-mairix-update (level)
             (interactive "P")
             ;; if no prefix given, set level=1
             (gnus-group-get-new-news (or level 1))
             (nnmairix-update-groups "mairixsearch" t t)
             (gnus-group-list-groups))
 
           (define-key gnus-group-mode-map "g" 'my-check-mail-mairix-update)
 
      Instead of ‘"mairixsearch"’ use the name of your ‘nnmairix’ server.
      See the doc string for ‘nnmairix-update-groups’ for details.
 
    • Example: search group for ticked articles
 
      For example, you can create a group for all ticked articles, where
      the articles always stay unread:
 
      Hit ‘G b g’, enter group name (e.g., ‘important’), use ‘F:f’ as
      query and do not include threads.
 
      Now activate marks propagation for this group by using ‘G b p’.
      Then activate the always-unread feature by using ‘G b r’ twice.
 
      So far so good—but how do you remove the tick marks in the
      ‘nnmairix’ group?  There are two options: You may simply use
      ‘nnmairix-remove-tick-mark-original-article’ (bound to ‘$ u’) to
      remove tick marks from the original article.  The other possibility
      is to set ‘nnmairix-propagate-marks-to-nnmairix-groups’ to ‘t’, but
      see the above comments about this option.  If it works for you, the
      tick marks should also exist in the ‘nnmairix’ group and you can
      remove them as usual, e.g., by marking an article as read.
 
      When you have removed a tick mark from the original article, this
      article should vanish from the ‘nnmairix’ group after you have
      updated the mairix database and updated the group.  Fortunately,
      there is a function for doing exactly that:
      ‘nnmairix-update-groups’.  See the previous code snippet and the
      doc string for details.
 
    • Dealing with auto-subscription of mail groups
 
      As described before, all ‘nnmairix’ groups are in fact stored on
      the mail back end in the form ‘zz_mairix-<NAME>-<NUMBER>’.  You can
      see them when you enter the back end server in the server buffer.
      You should not subscribe these groups!  Unfortunately, these groups
      will usually get _auto-subscribed_ when you use ‘nnmaildir’ or
      ‘nnml’, i.e., you will suddenly see groups of the form ‘zz_mairix*’
      pop up in your group buffer.  If this happens to you, simply kill
      these groups with C-k.  For avoiding this, turn off
      auto-subscription completely by setting the variable
      ‘gnus-auto-subscribed-groups’ to ‘nil’ (Filtering New
      Groups), or if you like to keep this feature use the following
      kludge for turning it off for all groups beginning with ‘zz_’:
 
           (setq gnus-auto-subscribed-groups
                 "^\\(nnml\\|nnfolder\\|nnmbox\\|nnmh\\|nnbabyl\\|nnmaildir\\).*:\\([^z]\\|z$\\|\\z[^z]\\|zz$\\|zz[^_]\\|zz_$\\).*")
 

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