Re: nnmaildir oddities!

[Josh Huber <huber@alum.wpi.edu>]

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Sounds like a plan.  Note that nnmaildir-get-new-mail is never
> defvar'ed (I don't feel safe setting it to t globally); it's only
> bound to t in a let form when nnmaildir calls nnmail-get-new-mail.
> I thought that was the only place where nnmaildir-get-new-mail would
> matter, but I could be wrong about that.

I think my head is about to explode trying to trace my way through the
nnmaildir code :) (no offense, I'm just not used to reading it...)

I *think* I may have found the problem, but I might be completely
missing it.

nnml-request-accept article uses nnmail-article-group when the group
is not passed in:

(if (stringp group)
    (...)

   (and
  (nnmail-activate 'nnml)
  (if (and (not (setq result (nnmail-article-group 'nnml-active-number)))
	   (yes-or-no-p "Moved to `junk' group; delete article? "))
      (setq result 'junk)
    (setq result (car (nnml-save-mail result))))
...

nnmail-article-group goes through the split methods to see what group
to save the article in.

In contrast, nnmaildir uses nnmaildir--prepare to generate a group if
one is not passed in, which just returns the current group:

(defun nnmaildir-request-accept-article (gname &optional server last)
  (let ((group (nnmaildir--prepare server gname))
	(coding-system-for-write nnheader-file-coding-system)
	(buffer-file-coding-system nil)
	(file-coding-system-alist nil)
	srv-dir dir file tmpfile curfile 24h num article)
    (catch 'return
      (if group nil
	(setf (nnmaildir--srv-error nnmaildir--cur-server)
	      (concat "No such group: " gname))
	(throw 'return nil))
      (setq gname (nnmaildir--grp-name group))
 [...]


Am I off base here?  If I'm reading this right (a big *if*), then
respooling with split rules doesn't work with nnmaildir -- it seems to
just re-save the article to the curent group!

This probably isn't the desired behavior...

Hopefully someone can explain this?

-- 
Josh Huber