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>>>>> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>:

>> HOWEVER, we could just cheat and totally special-case things for
>> nnimap.  That is, a new interface function
>> 
>> (*-request-move-articles-internally articles from-group server to-group)
>> 
>> If it exists, and the move is internal (from one group on the same IMAP
>> server to another), this would just issue COPY + \Deleted + EXPUNGE, and
>> forget about all Gnus niceties with the cache/agent/etc.

> That would work for me. In this particular case speed is more
> important to me than features :-)

What will it mean wrt. to uniformity for copies and moves across
backends?  Will it still be possible to split from nnimap to eg. nnml
folders?