Re: Proposal/Request for feature for splitting to FQ groups

[wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)]

Soren Dayton <csdayton@cs.uchicago.edu> writes:

> wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:
> 
> > Soren Dayton <csdayton@cs.uchicago.edu> writes:
> > 
> > > So I was playing with splitting again (this is a hobby of mine) and I
> > > would really like to be able to split from my nnml backend into an nnimap
> > > mailbox.  This would be really, really nice for me.
> > 
> > Ooooh oooh me too!
> > 
> > Please please please?!?!?! :)
> > 
> > I volunteer lots of beer if this gets into pgnus before it gets a 'real'
> > number and we don't add any more features.  'GCC' can do this kind of
> > thing, so why not the splitting code? :)
> 
> So, I've thought about it some more, and there may be good reasons `why
> not the splitting code'.  I don't see a good failure behavior.  What
> happens if the method cannot be brought up (it is on a down file server,
> the imap server isn't up, I just deleted the directory that stores the
> messages for that method, etc.).
> 
> For Gcc, it's easy because it's the user's problem.  Gnus beeps at me,
> and I go fix it or change it or whatever.

That's still not very nice. :)

> But if I've been on vacation for a month, I start up gnus, and go take a
> shower (after all, bbdb splitting ain't fast) and it starts splitting.
> And my imap server (which I am splitting messages into) is down.  I'm
> screwed.  Stick it somewhere where I have to split 500 messages by hand?
> Not me.  Stick it in the crash box?  Eep.
> 
> What would the right behavior be here?

Stick it somewhere where you can easily respool the entire mailbox with a
single keystroke (or two or three).

-Bill P.