Re: mail splitting to another backend

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, jas@extundo.com wrote:
>> You can use an IMAP mail-source and split from it into nnml.
>
> How?  Using "nnml+private:mail" inside nnimap-split-fancy didn't work,
> for instance (it created an IMAP folder with that name).

Simon isn't saying that the syntax we want already works.  The mail
splitting would have to be done by the nnml select method
(nnml-get-new-mail t), referring to nnml groups without their
prefixes, but it could use IMAP as a mail-source.

>> Perhaps a directory mail-source handles the other direction.
>
> I tested directing the nnmail split to nnimap, and that failed as
> well (creating a directory under ~/Mail with the "nnimap+..." name).

For that, the nnimap select method would have to do the splitting; it
would refer to nnimap groups without their prefixes.

Doing it both ways in the same configuration would probably require
different values for mail-sources during the two splits (possible, or
not?), or carefully naming groups the same way on the two servers.


paul