Re: regular and adaptive scoring with nnimap

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 04 Feb 2003, kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de wrote:
> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> 
>> On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, asf@void.at wrote:
>>> On 2003-02-03, Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
>>>> Filenames will have to be numeric.  Retrieving an article by
>>>> subject is significantly harder.
>>> 
>>> Why not just use http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2192.txt URLs?
>>
>> Chiefly, it was my ignorance of that RFC that caused me to overlook
>> it :) Now that I look at it, it's rather difficult to reconcile it
>> with Gnus.  The URL has a lot of information built-in that in Gnus
>> is associated with the server name.
> 
> But you're going to use imap.el?  That has no built-in information,
> I'd think -- it's just a wrapper around the IMAP protocol, right?
> 
> But I haven't really looked closely, so this might be very wrong.

You're right.  But interpreting the full URL syntax is, IMO, not
necessary with Gnus since a server name is already associated with all
the necessary parameters.  To re-interpret the full URL scheme would
be fun, I'm sure, but would not make sense in writing a simple
store/retrieve IMAP file handler for Gnus.

Ted