Re: splitting working now : some issues/questions

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 08:57:34 +0200 Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> wrote: 

RR> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:09:55 +0200 Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 
RR> Could (or should) the group parameter spam destination please default to
RR> the groups server? Currently if I set the spam dest as an unqualified
RR> Gnus-Spam for my nnimap server then its going to nnml:Gnus-Spam. I need
RR> to currently fully qualify it to e.g nnimap+riley:Gnus-Spam.
>> 
>> I think it should behave like a regular group name, which is the
>> behaviour you're noting.

RR> I am wondering why this would be better since unqualified is more
RR> "local" and is the way for things like spam-split and spam-inbox. If
RR> working on a group that belongs to a server it seems logical that merely
RR> setting a group destination without fully qualifier such as
RR> "nnimap+riles" means on that current group's server on not on some other
RR> such as nnml which may, or may not, be random depending on select order.

For spam-split and general splitting, actually I have wanted for a long
time the group name to be qualified, but currently splitting only works
to the same server.  To keep with the Gnus conventions, I'd prefer to
keep group names qualified whenever poassible.

Ted