Re: Vacation auto-responder; splitting; fetching IMAP

Bob Newell writes:

> Aloha,
>
> Three things in one, perhaps should have been separate
> messages but that seemed spammish and the issues are related.
>
> 1. Believe it or not I can't find anything anywhere about
> setting up a vacation auto-responder in gnus.  My purpose here
> is actually to send an auto-response that I don't read
> business email on weekends, for mail sent to said business
> address on the weekend.  Okay, with a lot of frustration due
> to lack of knowledge, I set up something that sort of mostly
> works by using splitting and specifying a function as the
> splitting recipe.  However ...
>
> 2. If I fetch mail with (effectively) gnus-group-get-new-news,
> splitting runs as it should.  But if I fetch mail with
> (effectively) gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group, splitting
> does not run.  My tracing-gnus-fu is not good enough for me to
> as yet have figured out why this may be.  And this matters
> because ...

Makes sense to me: Splitting is, for a server, _among_ groups: should
not happen for a particular group.

> 3. When fetching with gnus-group-get-new-news, as noted
> splitting runs.  This is all fine if my web browser is not
> open to my email service (fastmail in my case).  However, if
> the browser is open and there is new mail showing in the
> browser, gnus-group-get-new-news won't download it.  However
> gnus-group-get-new-news this group (if *Group* is positioned
> to INBOX) actually will download this new mail--- but then
> splitting won't run.

That should be down to your email service, but IIUC the hooks in (info
"(gnus) Washing Mail") are run even "before storing". Perhaps that would
be better than (ab)using Splitting.

> Can anyone give me any tips here?  Has someone else set up an
> autoresponder in gnus?

Not me, I'm never on vacation: either working, or working on emacs :-)

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