Re: Problems using 5.8.3

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

Peter Weiss <Peter.Weiss@class.de> writes:

> No splitting is done, but I'm fiddling around with
> nnimap-split-rule and nnmail-split-fancy as Kai suggested.

That might too be due to using a IMAP mail-source, it would remove all
mail from the server to no splitting would occur.

> Thanks for the hints. I think the point is that I haven't understood the
> differences between mail-sources and gnus-secondary-select-methods. If i've
> got it right mail-sources is used to specify mail servers where mail is
> downloaded to local disk space.

Right, nnmail-derived backends such as nnml, nnfolder access local
(modulo remote filesystems etc) spools. They use a "mail-source" to
get mail into the local spool. Remote backends, such as nntp, nnweb,
nnimap don't use mail sources since they access remote mail.

> In this case how do I specify the nnml backend to hold the articles?

With `gnus-secondary-select-methods'.  Put the nnml backend in there
and it will get it's mail from all your mail-sources.

> I'll have to read mail from different places: at work, from the customers
> location or from my laptop. So I think leaving mail on the IMAP server is the
> best idea.
> 
> In this case: how do I set up gnus? Using the nnimap-* variables or is it
> sufficient to setup gnus-secondary-select-methods?

Just removing the IMAP mail-source configuration sound like it would
be enough.  If you got any nnml mailboxes, you should put a nnml
server in `g-s-s-methods' too, btw.

NB some nnimap-* stuff (nnimap-authenticator, nnimap-stream etc) are
virtual server variables, and some are plain variables
(nnimap-split-rules, nnimap-split-inbox etc) so each have to be
defined appropriately.