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 (see 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.
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.
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
(see 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_$\\).*")