Re: mail splitting to another backend

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, jas@extundo.com wrote:
>> You can use an IMAP mail-source and split from it into nnml.
>
> How?  Using "nnml+private:mail" inside nnimap-split-fancy didn't work,
> for instance (it created an IMAP folder with that name).

(setq mail-sources
      '(imap :server "mail.example.org" :predicate "1:*" :mailbox "INBOX.tonnml"))

This would fetch all messages from INBOX.tonnml and split them using
nnmail, and there you should be able to split the into nnml.

>> Perhaps a directory mail-source handles the other direction.
>
> I tested directing the nnmail split to nnimap, and that failed as
> well (creating a directory under ~/Mail with the "nnimap+..." name).

I take back my idea -- nnimap cannot split mail from mail-sources,
only from a IMAP mailbox.  This is probably not very difficult to fix,
though.  Just replace the part that fetches mail from the INBOX,
before it is splitted, with some code that gets mail from a
mail-source.  But to not interfer with normal mail-sources, I think
this would mean adding a nnimap-mail-sources.