Setting Gcc to an nnimap group

Setting Gcc to an nnimap group

[Rajesh Godbole]

The following setup has worked for me, mostly.  This sets up
my Gcc header to nnimap+aries:Mail/sent-{news,mail} depending
on whether I'm sending email or posting news.

Gotchas:
o The Mail/sent-{mail,news} folders on the server *need* to exist.
  nnimap appends to these.
o message mode spits out a message Couldn't store article in group ...,
  but the article gets appended to Mail/sent-mail

Other possibly beneficial things:
o Make the sent-mail and sent-news groups permanently visible and display
  all through G c
o Set group level to 2 through S l (I set my nnimap folders to level 1,
  so a 1 g gets email in that level and will skip the Gcc'ed folders)

HTH,

-rajesh

;;
;; Begin Setup for Gcc: nnimap+aries:Mail/sent-{mail,news}
;;
(setq gnus-message-archive-method
      '(nnimap "aries"
	       (nnimap-server-address "aries")
	       (nnimap-imap-directory "~/Mail/")))	       
				      

(setq gnus-message-archive-group
      '((if (message-news-p)
	    "Mail/sent-news"
	  "Mail/sent-mail")))

;; End setup

Re: Setting Gcc to an nnimap group

[William M. Perry]

Rajesh Godbole <argv@Sun.COM> writes:

> The following setup has worked for me, mostly.  This sets up
> my Gcc header to nnimap+aries:Mail/sent-{news,mail} depending
> on whether I'm sending email or posting news.
> 
> Gotchas:
> o The Mail/sent-{mail,news} folders on the server *need* to exist.
>   nnimap appends to these.
> o message mode spits out a message Couldn't store article in group ...,
>   but the article gets appended to Mail/sent-mail
> 
> Other possibly beneficial things:
> o Make the sent-mail and sent-news groups permanently visible and display
>   all through G c
> o Set group level to 2 through S l (I set my nnimap folders to level 1,
>   so a 1 g gets email in that level and will skip the Gcc'ed folders)

  Is there any way to make this create the folders, similar to what nnml
does?  It asks 'folder foo doesn't exist, create it?'

-bp

Re: Setting Gcc to an nnimap group

[Simon Josefsson]

wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:

>   Is there any way to make this create the folders, similar to what nnml
> does?  It asks 'folder foo doesn't exist, create it?'

Someone thought `fast' meant =really= fast while writing
nnimap-request-group. :-)

(Gnus ask the question and create the group, not the backend.)

--- nnimap.el~  Wed Dec  9 22:43:46 1998
+++ nnimap.el   Fri Dec 18 03:22:39 1998
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@
   (if fast
       (with-current-buffer nntp-server-buffer 
        (erase-buffer)
-       t)
+       (nnimap-possibly-change-group group server))
     (gnus-message 7 "Opening nnimap group %s..." group)
     (when (nnimap-possibly-change-group group server)
       (with-current-buffer nnimap-server-buffer