nnfolder and nnmail-split-fancy

nnfolder and nnmail-split-fancy

[Norman Walsh]

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I've been using the nnml backend for a long time, but I'm considering
moving some of my mail to the nnfolder backend (mostly to simplify the
inode and block size issues).

Setting up my gnus-secondary-select-methods to allow nnfolders was
straightfoward. Using "B" "c" to copy mail over for testing worked
just fine.

But when I changed "name" to "nnfolder:name" in nnmail-split-fancy,
instead of having mail split into the nnfolder group, Gnus (No Gnus 0.6)
created an nnml group called "nnfolder:name".

Is there a trick I'm missing?

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                                          norm

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Re: nnfolder and nnmail-split-fancy

[Kai Grossjohann]

Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:

> But when I changed "name" to "nnfolder:name" in nnmail-split-fancy,
> instead of having mail split into the nnfolder group, Gnus (No Gnus 0.6)
> created an nnml group called "nnfolder:name".

Splitting does not work across backends.  Gnus iterates over all
backends, finds one that reads mail.  Then it fetches mail according
to mail-sources and splits it according to nnmail-split-methods.  Then
when it comes to the second backend, there is nothing to split because
all mail has gone.

Theoretically, you could have two files and use per-server variables
to set mail-sources to the first file and nnmail-split-methods to one
value for the first server, and to set mail-sources to the second file
and set nnmail-split-methods to another value for the second server.
Then remains the question how to split the incoming mail into two
files...

This is not pretty.

Kai