GNU ELPA - gnorb

Prior to late December, 2014, the Gnus registry had some issues with preserving "precious" entries while pruning.

When the registry approaches its maximum size it will delete excess entries, a process referred to as "pruning". "Precious" entries are those that contain important information: they should not be pruned.

Gnorb uses the registry to track associations between messages and Org headings, and marks those entries as precious. The entire process of tracking, in fact, relies on these entries being preserved, and Gnorb goes to some lengths to protect this information. Older versions of the registry could nevertheless delete those entries.

These issues are fixed circa the end of December, 2014, around "Ma Gnus v0.12", whatever that means. If you think there's a possibility your registry is full, and associations are being deleted, you might consider upgrading to a recent Gnus.

Gnorb theoretically supports email messages being associated with multiple Org headings. In practice, however, this situation hasn't been thought through completely, and you may experience weirdness. If you do, and you have some ideas about how it should be handled, please contact the author and suggest them.

Instead of just being place to put nnir searches, the nngnorb server should have groups in its own right. Users will still be able to make ephemeral search groups if they like, but they'll also have the option of creating regular Gnus groups that track certain Org subtrees. These groups will be persistent, and they will auto-update, so it's possible to handle more TODO stuff from the Gnus group buffer. Copying a message into the group will set up tracking for the message; deleting it from the group will remove tracking.

For instance, A `gnorb-view' command that takes a tags-todo search phrase (or a single Org heading ID), finds all relevant messages, Org headings, and BBDB records, and sets up a four-pane view: Org Agenda, BBDB buffer, Gnus Summary buffer, and Gnus Article buffer.

Or something like that – more pondering is necessary.

There are many solutions out there for setting up "personas" in Gnus or elsewhere: wrappers for mail composition and reply that create certain identities by setting variables and mail headers.

Do we need another one? Gnorb seems so well placed for this sort of thing: we've already got bbdb-posting-styles, and allowing further configuration based on, say, the Org tags of the subtree we're composing messages from… Or maybe it's just a case of NIH.

Provide an Org Agenda command that does an email search for messages received in the visible date span, or day under point, etc. Make it work in the calendar, as well?

At present, when you collect message links on a BBDB contact, each message is a separate link. If you have lengthy conversations with this contact, you'll get a whole bunch of links with the same summary: not very useful. Provide an option to collect one thread per link: each link represents the top-level message in the thread, and following the link opens a Summary buffer where the whole thread is visible.

When messages from a contact are associated with an Org heading, make it possible for the contact to inherit that heading's tags automatically.

Provide a `gnorb-bbdb-view' command that opens a Summary buffer containing all the tracked messages from the contact(s) under point.

Allow tagging of Gnus messages, by giving the message's registry entry an 'org-tags key.

When using `gnorb-email-subtree', provide built-in options for exporting to doc and rtf attachments; these are such commonly-needed formats. Do the odt conversion automatically.

Add trigger actions that create new sibling or child headings on the original Org heading.