From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57271 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: imap spam reporting Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:13:45 -0400 Organization: =?koi8-r?q?=F4=C5=CF=C4=CF=D2=20=FA=CC=C1=D4=C1=CE=CF=D7?= @ Cienfuegos Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <4nu0yla26u.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87pt9tx3wn.fsf@dod.no> <87d65rl0zl.fsf@dod.no> <87pt9rhy2s.fsf@dod.no> <87brlbhv0u.fsf@dod.no> <87y8of9doe.fsf@dod.no> <873c6lsx69.fsf@dod.no> <87n04iacoj.fsf_-_@dod.no> <4nr7tpd296.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ekppo3wl.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084390232 4331 80.91.224.253 (12 May 2004 19:30:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 19:30:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M5811@lists.math.uh.edu Wed May 12 21:30:19 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNzQp-0006Rr-00 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 21:30:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BNzQW-0004yo-00; Wed, 12 May 2004 14:30:00 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BNzQO-0004yi-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 12 May 2004 14:29:52 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BNzQN-00052y-6L for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 12 May 2004 14:29:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.bwh.harvard.edu (sysblade0.bwh.harvard.edu [134.174.9.44]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 180493A0035 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 14:29:50 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 1989 invoked from network); 12 May 2004 19:24:28 -0000 Original-Received: from asimov.bwh.harvard.edu (HELO asimov) ([134.174.9.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.bwh.harvard.edu (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 12 May 2004 19:24:26 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87ekppo3wl.fsf@dod.no> (Steinar Bang's message of "Wed, 12 May 2004 21:12:58 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57271 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57271 On Wed, 12 May 2004, sb@dod.no wrote: >>>>>> Ted Zlatanov : > >> 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