Re: Do nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent for nnimap?

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> I guess that nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent should somehow find out
>> the current backend and then ignore all the lines with the wrong
>> backend.  Right?  How would nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent find out
>> the current backend?  (Especially given that it might be called from
>> nnmail-split-methods as well as nnimap-split-rule!)
>
> `gnus-command-method' might work.

I shall try that.

>> It would be really cool if ~/.nnmail-cache was stored on the server
>> somehow.  Is there a way to store data like this alongside IMAP mail
>> on a server?
>
> Not really, but you can use either a dummy mailbox and put the file in
> a message in it (mark it \Deleted and it won't show up in Gnus), or
> store a dummy message in a standard mailbox ("INBOX" maybe) and
> somehow mark it so you can find it reliably.

Isn't there some kind of Advanced Configuration Management Protocol
or somesuch?  I remember a four-letter acronym starting with A which
was mentioned in conjunction with IMAP.  It was for storing some kind
of config data.

Maybe I should have mentioned that I control the server, so I can
install cool daemons on it.

kai
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