Re: fetching mail for multiple servers

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Right now, the algorithm for fetching mail is to go through all
> servers in order.  For each server, check if it gets mail.  If so,
> fetch mail from mail-sources and split it according to
> nnmail-split-methods.
> 
> This means if there are two servers that get mail, Gnus fetches mail
> for both of them but when processing the second one, no new mail is
> left.
> 
> I suggest to add the following backward-compatible feature to Gnus:
> when fetching mail for a server, look at server parameters
> mail-sources and nnmail-split-methods.  If the server parameter is
> set, use it, else use the value of the global variable instead.
> 
> This means that people could do something like this:
> 
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>       '((nnml "work"
>          (nnml-directory "~/workmail/")
>          (mail-sources '((pop :server "work.pop.server"))))
>         (nnml "play"
>          (nnml-directory "~/privatemail/")
>          (mail-sources '((pop :server "private.pop.server"))))))
> 

That looks very useful.  Its not clear from your post though, as to
what will happen with the splitting.  Is it possible to make this
works so that each server can have its own split code too?