Re: marks in gnus / uw imapd: what marks / how to set?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

John Owens <jowens@ece.ucdavis.edu> writes:

> Simon Josefsson writes:
>     The Gnusish way to do this would be to make Gnus read VM mailboxes
>     properly.  I wonder if this is difficult.  Is the VM mailbox format
>     described anywhere?  Maybe it is just babyl and some external marks
>     stuff?  I'm not really familiar with VM.
>
> It's not a hard format. My elisp fu is weak, but I would certainly be
> willing to help with the transition. It's a simple format: every
> message has the following header:
>
> X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil t nil nil nil nil]
> 	["2009" "Monday" "4" "August" "2003" "09:23:04" "+0200" "Simon Josefsson" "jas@extundo.com" "<iluu18xrinb.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>" "58" "Re: marks in gnus / uw imapd: what marks / how to set?" "^From:" nil nil "8" nil nil (number " " mark "  R  Simon Josefsson   Aug  4   58/2009  " thread-indent "\"Re: marks in gnus / uw imapd: what marks / how to set?\"\n") nil nil nil nil nil nil]
> 	nil)

What format is the file?  mbox, babyl, etc?  It sounds pretty simple
to add a nnvm, if the files is in a already supported format.  Simply
copy nnmbox or nnbabyl, remove some cruft and add a
nnvm-request-update-info that frob Gnus's flags using the headers.

Hm, if you can create a VM mailbox with say 5 messages with some
different flags and make it available, I can attempt to create a nnvm.

If someone knows a reason this hasn't been done before, I'm all ears.