Re: mail split with multiple backends

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Are you referring here to a respool across different backends?
> 
> Respooling from nnml to nnml the marks persist.

Has that changed recently?

If not then I'm surprised, I sure did something a while back that lost
my marks, and I could have sworn it was process marking all the
articles in one of my most important groups and then respooling (B r)
them to the same group.  I did that because I'd changed my split rules
and I wanted to use them to file some of the articles elsewhere, but I
certainly didn't want *any* of them to lose their marks.

In fact, I still haven't finished recovering from that.  I just don't
have the time to deal with that much work.  I now have a group with
8638 messages in it, and I have no idea what in there is
important/pending vs archive material :< It's been long enough now
though that I'm hoping that for anything important that I accidentally
dropped, the relevant people have since contacted me.

(I just recalled another wishlist item -- making
 gnus-use-cross-reference a backend variable so that you can, for
 example, set it separately for mail and news (I'd like t for news and
 nil for mail).  Originally I just set it because I wanted
 cross-references updated for news, but I didn't think carefully
 enough about what the implications for mail were...)

FWIW
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