Re: bogus group

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:37:57 +0100, Richard wrote:
>
>> Whats the simplest split rule to put it into "inbox"?
>
> My nnmail-split-fancy looks like this:
>
>   (setq nnmail-split-fancy
>         '(|
>             ; Get rid of spam:
>             (: spam-split)
>             ; [... splitting out into various groups elided ...]
>             "normal"))
>
> Email that isn't spam (and not sorted out to folders by any of the
> elided rules) ends up in my (nnml:)normal folder.
>
> Note that I do not use imap, and I'm not really sure whether inbox has
> some special significance there.

imap has nothing to do with nnmail does it?

>
>> And I assume this only applies to nnmail? I'm not sure I even
>> understand what nnmail is to be honest... Im kind of Gnus'd out and
>> cant see the wood for the trees.
>
> I don't quite know what the nnmail prefix signifies, perhaps "this is
> used for mail (not news), regardless of which nn* backend is used"? Wild
> guess... caveat emptor - I'm sure someone will correct me now :-)

Heh. I have nnimap backs ends talking to dovecot which is fed by
offlineimap. No worries. But simply reading my system email is becoming
quite a chore.