From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/70498 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Frank Schmitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: That newfangled IMAP thing... Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:00:35 +0200 Organization: Hamme net, kren mer och nimmi Message-ID: <87occcfli4.fsf@mid.gehheimdienst.de> References: <87pqwt6lit.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283688330 7779 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2010 12:05:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 12:05:30 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M18873@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Sep 05 14:05:24 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsDyN-00070R-42 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:05:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OsDyF-000296-Pc; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:05:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OsDyE-00028p-FZ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:05:14 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OsDy9-0002Kh-Tz for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:05:13 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OsDy9-0007ZG-00 for ; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:05:09 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsDy4-0006rY-Gd for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:05:04 +0200 Original-Received: from zoidberg.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.69.172]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:05:04 +0200 Original-Received: from ich by zoidberg.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:05:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: zoidberg.uni-koblenz.de X-Face: :EL9TzGRN){7|oE2~xQ8Q(VjpjsXgX$~gi&rYD5J5p)$w\Thdl~v:7h`/n)J!8nXT%_+Wj6}@EHM8}QbA(9nX-wrQ:ch1%DauV[?kFasXUcnL#+"K8zOx&$@/M'/},q-eztaJra1|?C+p$h\2XnK-HB"8_U Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:70498 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Steinar Bang writes: > >> Depends on what you want to do. You can go to the server buffer, open >> the server and explore its folders, then subscribe to them as groups. > > But there are no folders on a server before somebody has created them, > I'd have thought? You normally have just a folder Inbox created by default and create new ones as needed. >> Split incoming mail with procmail, or sieve, or the mail splitting tool >> of your choice, directly into the imap server's folders. > > Yuck. On the mail server? Do people set up procmail rules still, in > this day and age? In my case: Yes. Nothing prevents you from using normal mail splitting capabilities of Gnus where you split mails from nnimap:Inbox into nnimap:Foo. -- Have you ever considered how much text can fit in eighty columns? Given that a signature typically contains up to four lines of text, this space allows you to attach a tremendous amount of valuable information to your messages. Seize the opportunity and don't waste your signature on bullshit that nobody cares about.