Re: regular and adaptive scoring with nnimap

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

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.

Yeah, you could throw an error on make-directory.  Or you do
something similar to `G m'?

> 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?)

See below.

> Filenames will have to be numeric.  Retrieving an article by subject
> is significantly harder.

Yes.

> I'm currently trying to figure out how to enter the storage nnimap
> group to store or retrieve an article without affecting variables like
> gnus-newsgroup-name.

You could circumvent nnimap and use imap.el.  Then the nnimap
variables will not be affected.

How about allowing the user to type the user and host name into the
filename?
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