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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: IMAP Folder hierarchy -> Topics
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:53:08 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj94akp7.fsf@building.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1s4mw9886m.fsf@voll2.uninett.no> (Vegard Vesterheim's message of "Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:55:13 +0200")

Vegard Vesterheim <vegard.vesterheim@uninett.no> writes:

> Here is a function which seems to work, using dovecot as IMAP
> server. Each IMAP server gets its own main topic, and the IMAP folder
> hierarchy is used to create a corresponding topic structure. Setting the
> variable gnus-browse-subscribe-newsgroup-method to
> gnus-subscribe-create-topic, I can simply subscribe the folders in the
> server buffer (pressing 'u') and have GNUS create the appropriate topic
> structure automatically. Hopefully someone with better elisp knowledge
> can verify and clean up this code, and add it to GNUS.

Sounds like a good idea.  I don't have mail box hierarchies on any IMAP
servers, so I can't test this.  Perhaps somebody else who does feels
inspired to take the idea and install it in Gnus?

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      reply	other threads:[~2015-01-27  4:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-23 10:16 Vegard Vesterheim
2012-11-23 10:47 ` Steinar Bang
2012-11-23 11:09   ` Vegard Vesterheim
2012-12-24 17:45     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-24 17:48       ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-09-15 10:55         ` Vegard Vesterheim
2015-01-27  4:53           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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