Re: regular and adaptive scoring with nnimap

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 04 Feb 2003, jas@extundo.com wrote:
> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> 
>> I wrote some pieces of code, specifically file creation and listing
>> of groups on a nnimap server.  I'm very slowly working my way
>> through the file operations - stuff like make-directory is trivial
>> when dealing with files, but pretty complex with nnimap.
>> Fortunately I can just ignore most file functionality.
>>
>> groups will be mapped to directories files will be mapped to
>> articles (filename == article number) the current nnimap server
>> will always be used (good idea?  bad idea?)
> 
> As Kai said, using imap.el directly might be better.  nnimap.el is a
> hack but I like to believe that imap.el isn't as bad.  I think
> nnimap still alters some Gnus internal variables when you enter a
> group, for instance.

I was hoping to find those variables, but I see that it's a losing
game to play catch-up with the rest of Gnus as new group-level
variables are introduced.  There's no save-all-variables-in-scope, is
there? :)

> OTOH using nnimap might make it easy to generalize the code for any
> Gnus backend, which could be interesting.

I thought about that, but I'm not sure I'm up to doing all that work -
I'm pretty sure it requires modifications to Gnus in order to allow a
temporary switch to another group without repercussions to the current
group.

>> Filenames will have to be numeric.  Retrieving an article by
>> subject is significantly harder.
> 
> imap.el's `imap-search' is rather powerful;
> 
> (imap-search "HEADER Message-Id \"mydirectory/myfile.txt\"")
> 
> should return all UID's for articles with that Subject.

OK, I'll use that and allow for both numeric and by-subject
addressing.  Thanks!

Ted