Re: imap spam reporting

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 12 May 2004, sb@dod.no wrote:

>>>>>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
> 
>> On Sat, 08 May 2004, sb@dod.no wrote:
> 
>>> Would it be possible to write a spam reporting function using the
>>> imap library of Gnus, that would move an article to a spam
>>> reporting group on the server?  Ie. without first transferring the
>>> article to Gnus as is done in move operations today?
> 
>> Yes, but I think it's a bad idea.  Maybe it's better to fix Gnus
>> than to spend time writing such hacks.
> 
> I disagree that this is a hack.

Well, it's a workaround that can be avoided :)

> A command like the one I'm suggesting means that spam can be
> reported by moving it to a different folder on an IMAP server,
> without first transferring it to Gnus, and then pushing it back to
> the IMAP server.

Shouldn't the nnimap backend do this?  If it doesn't do it already,
it seems like an awfully nice feature to move articles without
retrieving them.

Writing a spam reporting function to specifically move articles from
IMAP group A to IMAP group B because of unreadable IMAP groups is a
very, very narrow-focus task.  I doubt more than 5 users worldwide
would ever find it useful.  If I'm wrong and there's a crowd of such
users, I'll be more than happy to help them.

> As to fixing Gnus in this respect... I'm not really sure what the
> proper way to handle unreadable nnimap groups is...

I think we should fix nnimap so it does what you want!  I'll be glad
to put my efforts in that direction, since it will benefit many more
users and solve your problem too.

Ted