Boomerang-like additions?

[David Bremner]

Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky at redhat.com> writes:

> Heya folks,
>
> I recently stumbled on http://www.boomeranggmail.com/
>
> It does have some nifty features (like archiving email
> until later point, or only if nobody replies until certain date). Some
> of them seem like they should be fairly easy to script.
>
> What I could imagine without too much issues:
>  * Decide on tag format
>    * start with boom
>    * optional "only if no replies": _NR
>    * date in format: _YYYYMMDD
>    * optional time: _MMHH
>  * a cron job looking at all threads with "boom" and deciding if it's
>    time to return
>
> I looked at archives and didn't find anything. Has anyone tried to do
> this? I don't want to do NiH :-)

It sounds related (although maybe not exactly the same as) "snoozing"
mail. That has been discussed on list a bit; "nevermore" includes an
implementation that could probably be borrowed, for example.

d