Re: New Gnus User

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

Chris Richards <cjr@netpliance.net> writes:

> As you can see, I am cross-posting.  However, it seems that though the
> cross-posting works, reading one of the cross-posted messages does not
> change the state of the message in the other IMAP groups.  Is this a
> limitation of nnimap?

Yes.

There are two methods to remedy this; 1) when crossposting, store
information somewhere that tie crossposted articles together and
return this info in the Xref header, I don't see a way to have it on
the IMAP server so it wouldn't be a clean solution; 2) have the nnimap
splitter add the proper Xref header when crossposting, the
disadvantage is that all articles has to be downloaded and uploaded so
it would be slow.

> (As an aside, I was unable to set nnimap-split-rule within the
> nnimap "np" section.  I suppose if I have multiple nnimap accounts,
> this could be troublesome.)

Yes, split rules are within one server only. It might be possible to
bind `nnimap-split-rule' as server variables on the two virtual nnimap
servers, but be prepared to debug things if you try to (it's not
supposed to work that way).

> Lastly, gnus does not seem to ask if I want to expunge my IMAP groups
> on close even though I have it set.

You're quoting stuff twice, remove all but the first '-character
below.

> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>       '((nnfolder ""
>                   (nnfolder-get-new-mail 't))
>         (nnimap "np"
>                 (nnimap-server-address "mail.netpliance.net")
>                 (nnimap-list-pattern ".*")
>                 (nnimap-expunge-on-close 'ask)
>                 (nnimap-split-crosspost 't)
>                 (nnimap-split-inbox "INBOX"))))