Re: Mail splitting stopped working with Emacs 25

[Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hurri@iki.fi>]

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> Jarmo writes:
>
>> 1. If anyone has a working imap mail splitting definition for Emacs 25
>>    which uses gnus-group-browse-foreign-server to subscribe to the imap
>>    groups
>
> Could it be that Emacs thinks the mail in your INBOX already has been
> split?

Well, it actually does split the mail, just puts it into "mail.misc"
instead of the boxes where I would like it to go.

I guess the main difference between Emacs 24 and 25 is that a number of
variables are now server-specific. For example, setting
nnimap-split-methods to some value globally doesn't help, since it gets
reset. That is the gist of the thread I gave a link to in my message, if
I understood correctly.

> Just our of curiosity: why do you insist on using
> gnus-group-browse-foreign-server instead of the usual
> gnus-secondary-select-methods?

It's been ages since I "decided" how to subscribe to imap, and I have
been using the same method since. But see below.

>>    SECOND TRY: use gnus-secondary-select-methods with a variable,
>>    something equivalent to
>>
>>    (setq my-nnimap-split-methods
>>      '(
>>        ("lists" "^\\(To\\|Cc\\):.*list")
>>        ("Spam" "^From:.*spamster")
>>        ("personal" "")))
>>    
>>    (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
>>         '(nnimap "mail"
>>            (nnimap-address "mail.server.com")
>>            (nnimap-stream ssl)
>>            (nnimap-server-port 993)
>>            (nnimap-inbox "INBOX")
>>            (nnimap-split-methods my-nnimap-split-methods)))
>>
>>     This gave me _no mail_: no imap boxes, no mail whatsoever, nothing
>>     even related to imap in buffer *Messages*. I have no idea why.
>
> Did the server buffer show your server ("{nnimap:mail}")?

Nope. It is as if the secondary method has absolutely no effect.

Jarmo