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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> I guess that nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent should somehow find out
> the current backend and then ignore all the lines with the wrong
> backend.  Right?  How would nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent find out
> the current backend?  (Especially given that it might be called from
> nnmail-split-methods as well as nnimap-split-rule!)

`gnus-command-method' might work.

> It would be really cool if ~/.nnmail-cache was stored on the server
> somehow.  Is there a way to store data like this alongside IMAP mail
> on a server?

Not really, but you can use either a dummy mailbox and put the file in
a message in it (mark it \Deleted and it won't show up in Gnus), or
store a dummy message in a standard mailbox ("INBOX" maybe) and
somehow mark it so you can find it reliably.