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David Kagedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se> writes:

> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
> 
> > >>>>> David Kagedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>:
> > 
> > > Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
> > >> * make it possible to set a directory prefix for each IMAP server.
> > >> This will make mail group names shorter when using the UoW imapd
> > 
> > > Even better:
> > 
> > > * Make it possible to duplicate the IMAP folder hierarchy with Gnus
> > >   topics, and only showing the last part of the group names, since the
> > >   full folder name (minus the root prefix) is available as the topic
> > >   path.

Hmm.  If this could be made to do lookups in a "nice" way when
browsing the active file hierarchically (A T?  Is that it?) this would
be especially good.  (i.e. do a LIST "" "%" to get the top level, then
LIST "" "something.%" when you open one of the sublevels, and so on.)
This would provide a good way to deal with very large servers, since
getting the active file on a 30000 group server is a bit, um,
prohibitive at the moment.  (I haven't let it finish--30 minutes and
all the VM on my machine is sufficient to put me off.)

> > Hm... but I use topics as a logical grouping, grouping news groups and 
> > mail groups about the same things.  Won't this approach conflict with
> > that? 

No forcing of this on people, yeah.  Also note the ability of groups
to be in more than one topic, though.  That could help this issue.

John.