Re: nnmaildir oddities!

[Josh Huber <huber+dated+1028145806.d34009@alum.wpi.edu>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> I didn't follow this thread closely, but respooling in Gnus used
> either nnmail internal stuff or some undocumented backend interface,
> which explains why it doesn't work for nnimap.  Maybe the same
> applied to nnmaildir.  Documenting the backend interface for
> respooling should be possible though, as well as fixing nnimap.el.
> Anyone? :)

Well, the problem in nnmaildir was that when you call the respool
function (and eventually call nnmaildir-request-move-article, I
think), it's called with a nil destination group value.  In nnml, this
triggers a lookup with your split rules, with nnmaildir this triggers
the backend to save in the current group. (i.e. where it came from)

IMHO, the determination of the destination group should happen much
earlier in the game -- doing in buried in each backend is just not the
right thing to do.

Now, the code was a little hard to follow, so I could be completely
off base here. (just to cover my ass! :)

later,

-- 
Josh Huber