From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/22751 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Splitting across backends... Date: 22 Apr 1999 18:09:14 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <86g15thmzu.fsf@kramer.bp.aventail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160613 30951 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:36:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:36:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA20721 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:15:56 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB29475; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:09:55 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:10:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA05856 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:10:14 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from xiphias.pdc.kth.se (xiphias.pdc.kth.se [130.237.221.226]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA20600 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:10:05 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from jas@localhost) by xiphias.pdc.kth.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA08765; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:09:14 +0200 (METDST) Original-To: wmperry@aventail.com In-Reply-To: wmperry@aventail.com's message of "21 Apr 1999 13:00:53 -0500" Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070083 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.83) Emacs/20.3.6 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22751 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22751 wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes: > Is it possible yet to do mail splitting to a backend _other_ than the one > doing the retrieval? > > I currently keep all of my email on my laptop, but would prefer to leave > the vast majority of it in IMAP back in seattle. Email things that I tend > to deal with on long plane rides (Emacs/W3, XEmacs, etc), I want to have > local to the laptop so I can do things unplugged. > > So I want to have the imap splitting code split some things into a nnml > folders, and the rest into just normal imap folders. This isn't possible. Currently all backends need to do their own splitting (it just happens to be that all mail backends except nnimap uses the same splitting code -- no, nnimap can't share that code). Backend independent splitting would be cool. -s