Re: nnima-split-with-parent

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

Jan Rychter <jan@rychter.com> writes:

>>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> writes:
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> [...]
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>  Kai> Note that nnmail-cache makes sure to only store group names from
>  Kai> the right server, cf. nnmail-cache-primary-mail-backend.
>
> Yes, I noticed that. I removed that restriction. I hope that doesn't
> break things.

It means that if I move a message from nnml:mail.misc to
nnimap:INBOX.foo, then a reply to that message comes in, the
nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent code will try to put that reply in
nnml:INBOX.foo, which wasn't intended.

>  Kai> When I did this, I thought only one server would be needed anyway,
>  Kai> so I didn't do more.
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>  Kai> Oh, another possibility is to store the fully qualified group
>  Kai> name, instead of devising a file format with three fields.  I
>  Kai> guess it's a matter of taste which is to be preferred.
>
> I also prefer the fully qualified group name approach. Except that I
> dont't know what a fully qualified group name really is (I think I know,
> but I haven't seen the definition anywhere). And what parts of Gnus are
> capable of using it. But as I'm reading more and more of Gnus code, I
> think FQGNs should be used much more than they are.

Right.
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