Re: imap splitting to mail.misc?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Enrico Schumann <es@enricoschumann.net> writes:

> On Tue, 02 Jul 2013, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>
> [...]
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>>
>> And is it actually a mistake to leave anything in INBOX? Or rather, a
>> mistake to split things *back* into the INBOX? Maybe I should be making
>> myself a separate box and splitting all unmatched messages into that?
>> But I would still have to assume that some messages would end up in
>> "mail.misc", as they do now...
>>
>
> Hm, I don't use nnimap-split-fancy, but nnimap-split-rule. Then you
> don't need a 'catch-all' split rule.  From the manual:
>
>   "Nnmail users might recollect that the last regexp had to be empty to
>    match all articles [...]. This is not required in nnimap. Articles
>    not matching any of the regexps will not be moved out of your inbox."
>
> But that does not explain where "mail.misc" comes from....
>
> Regards,
>         Enrico

With a little help off-list, I think I've figured it out. I've been
using bbdb/gnus-split-method, both with nnmail and nnimap. It appears
that, with nnimap, the value of bbdb/gnus-split-default-group comes into
play. That defaults to "mail.misc", and switching it to "INBOX" solved
the problem.

Why it was putting some messages into "mail.misc" and leaving others in
"INBOX" is a different mystery.

E