Re: [Q] spooling from several sources

[Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted as well.

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> > Is it possible to set up an nnml mail group to read mail from an nnmh
> > group, as well as its own mbox spool file.
> >
> > If eg. nnmh:mail.private normally read .procmail filtered email from
> > 	~/Mail/spool/mail.private.spool
> > is it possible to make it, in addition, pick up mail from
> > 	nnml:private
> > and then mark the picked up messages as read, and then expire this
> > folder.
> 
> Doing something like this would require quite a lot of work, I think.
> It kinda goes against the grain of what the mail backends usually do
> when splitting mail, so implementing this would be a pain.

I already tried to ask for the same feature on the ding list a while ago. But
you didn't understand what I meant then. Kai pointed me to the B r
respool command. The above would be equivalent to doing a

1. Enter group nnml:private 
2. process mark all new mail temporarily
3. setup the spilitting rules to put everything in nnmh:mail.private
4. "B r" respool all the message
5. restore the old splitting rules
6. leave nnml:private

So Gnus can already do this. The trick is only to automate it.

Jan