Re: [Q] nnimap / GMail / splitting

[David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>]

Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org> writes:
> More precisely, please tell me if my interpretation of the situation
> below is correct:
>
> - nnimap splitting rules are local: you get individual mails moved to
>   different group when Gnus is used to get new mail. The mails are moved
>   around on the server, but if you get new mail via the web interface,
>   it will just stay in your inbox (it won't be split automatically).

Yes.

> - GMail doesn't support Sieve, so there's no way to have my nnimap
>   splitting rules transferred up to the server.

Yes. There also doesn't seem to exist an API for Googlemail which could
do that.

> - So if I want my mail split on the server as well (when I use the web
>   interface), every time I create or modify a splitting rule in Gnus,
>   I'd have to duplicate it somehow by hand.

Then I guess you could just create rules only in Googlemail in the first
place?

-David