Re: A T does not work in nnimap

[Andrew Cohen <cohen@andy.bu.edu>]

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

    Lars> Andrew Cohen <cohen@andy.bu.edu> writes:
    >> OK here is a first pass at modifying gnus-summary-refer-thread to
    >> work with imap. It seemed like a good idea to factor out a
    >> thread-searching function for nnimap, so I did.

    Lars> I think, perhaps, that it would be nice if this worked
    Lars> generally for all non-NOV backends.  Although the speedup for
    Lars> IMAP is nice, but it should probably be refactored out into a
    Lars> -request-thread function that would just return the headers of
    Lars> all the articles that are in the thread.

I definitely agree and started thinking about this while playing around
with A T.

Firstly, this may be beyond my minimal skill set.  But in any case, I
wonder what the backend functions should do. They could return the
headers as you suggest. Or they might just return the list of
articles. But I noticed that there is an imap extension for returning a
threaded list of messages. It might be useful to choose something that
would allow for backend specific speedups in threading.

Since I haven't figured out exactly how threading works at the moment,
I'm not sure whats best.

Regards,
Andy