Re: Getting started: splitting mail, SMIME, local copies

[bromley@lavabit.com]

> If you don't have a news server called "news" on your network, you'll
> probably want to set your primary server to be nnnil, like so:
>
>  (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil ""))

That's great, but gnus won't connect to the IMAP server if I set the
above. How can I initialize a connection?

> Configure splitting or fancy splitting:

>  * http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_177.html
>  * http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_184.html

Thanks for the links, but I've already seen them.

These links show how splitting works using various backends as
examples (e.g. nnml, nnimap), but I'm using
(setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil "")) and
(setq mail-sources '((imap ...))). There are no such examples.

Should I use nnml-split-methods? Should I use nnnil-split-methods?
(Does it exist?)

Also it's hard to understand those examples. They are too complex.

I've tried the following:

1. Changed (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil "")) to
(setq gnus-select-method '(nnml "")). (Because nnnil isn't documented.)

2. Added

(nnml-split-methods nnml-split-fancy)
(nnml-split-fancy
 (| (from "some-list@example.com"
          "some-list")
    "INBOX"))

It raised "byte-code: Error in ~/.gnus: nnml-split-methods".

Could you show how to do it?