Re: nnimap split-rule and split-fancy

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

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

> Surely a dumb question, but I don't have it working correctly ...
>
> I have several different mail spool files that I would like to
> consider as a single logical mailbox. nnimap-split-inbox seems to do
> this quite well:
>
>       nnimap-split-inbox '("INBOX" "*.incoming")

Do you have a mailbox named *.incoming?  Wildcards are not supported.

> And nnimap-split-fancy also seems to work OK for me:
>
>       nnimap-split-fancy
>       '(|
>       ("subject" "test1" "mailbox1")
>       ("subject" "test2" "mailbox2")
>       ("subject" "test3" "mailbox3")
>       "unsorted")
>
> The problem I have is mapping the inboxes to the splitting, which I
> understand should be done with nnimap-split-rule. 

Yup.  Inbox-specific splitting is only possible with
nnimap-split-rule, fancy splitting does not support it.

> I want to call the same split-fancy rule on every one of my split
> inboxes.

Then you don't need inbox-specific splitting at all?

> I haven't figured out what to set for nnimap-split-rule yet. Right
> now I have
>
>       nnimap-split-rule 'nnimap-split-fancy
>
> but I've also tried
>
>       nnimap-split-rule '((".*"    (".*" nnimap-split-fancy)))
>
> with no success. I've been able to split from INBOX but not from the
> *.incoming boxes. Suggestions as to how to set nnimap-split-rule?

Both should work.  But I suspect the reason *.incoming doesn't work is
because there is no mailbox named *.incoming.