problem with nnimap-split-methods

problem with nnimap-split-methods

[Eric S Fraga]

Hello,

I hope somebody can please point out either what I am doing wrong or
where I am misunderstanding things.  I am setting nnimap-split-methods
and, according to the documentation, this should follow the syntax for
nnmail-split-methods.  All of my specific splits are being obeyed so I
seem to have most things set up okay.  However, the last entry in my
list of splitting methods is:

(setq nnimap-split-methods ( 
   ...
   ("general" "")
))

which, from the documentation, leads me to believe that all remaining
unsplit messages should end up in an imap mailbox called "general".
This doesn't happen: they all remain in the main inbox.  Why is this?

A second point: if I change the regex to be ".*", *all* my emails end up
there regardless of whether they were sent to another group or not.  The
documentation is unclear about whether a message can be split to
different mailboxes if it matches more than one entry in the list of
methods.  Can somebody clarify for me which view is correct?

Thanks,
eric

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Re: problem with nnimap-split-methods

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> A second point: if I change the regex to be ".*", *all* my emails end up
> there regardless of whether they were sent to another group or not.  The
> documentation is unclear about whether a message can be split to
> different mailboxes if it matches more than one entry in the list of
> methods.  Can somebody clarify for me which view is correct?

See `nnmail-crosspost'.

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Re: problem with nnimap-split-methods

[Eric S Fraga]

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

> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> A second point: if I change the regex to be ".*", *all* my emails end up
>> there regardless of whether they were sent to another group or not.  The
>> documentation is unclear about whether a message can be split to
>> different mailboxes if it matches more than one entry in the list of
>> methods.  Can somebody clarify for me which view is correct?
>
> See `nnmail-crosspost'.

Thanks!

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