From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/51575 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mail splitting to another backend Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:56:06 -0400 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <4nadepf4bp.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050606329 2810 80.91.224.249 (17 Apr 2003 19:05:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 19:05:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M120@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Apr 17 21:05:27 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 196EXu-0008PC-00 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:55:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 196EYW-0008OV-00; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:56:20 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 196EYR-0008Nx-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:56:15 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 51183 invoked by alias); 17 Apr 2003 18:56:12 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 51178 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2003 18:56:12 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (@129.22.114.26) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 17 Apr 2003 18:56:12 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 12288 invoked by uid 500); 17 Apr 2003 18:56:29 -0000 Original-To: Ding Mailing List In-Reply-To: <4nadepf4bp.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu, 17 Apr 2003 12:59:06 -0400") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Mail-Followup-To: Ding Mailing List Original-Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51575 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51575 Ted Zlatanov wrote: > Currently, we can't split to another backend, e.g. nnml from nnimap. > Can that be added, if the destination is prefixed appropriately? I think mail splitting really ought to be redone. It should be controlled by Gnus proper rather than an individual select method. (There's too much policy in backends generally.) Splitting to multiple select methods would go naturally with that. paul