Re: Do nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent for nnimap?

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sun, 06 Oct 2002, Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE wrote:
> In principle, it should be possible to use
> nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent for nnimap, too.  But there are some
> issues, and I'm looking for ideas about them and about issues I
> missed.

I'd love this functionality!

> nnmail-cache-insert looks for the "primary mail backend" and only
> inserts the group name without server name.  My idea was to extend
> this mechanism to record which server the group is in.  Now the
> cache lines are msg id, then tab, then group.  I could add another
> tab and then the server.  That would make the format
> backward-compatible.  The code would assume the primary mail backend
> for lines missing the server.

Why not store the group name as Gnus shows it, e.g. when moving
articles?  nnxyz+abcdef:groupname is what I'm thinking of.  Then the
unqualified groups are in the primary backend - as they would be if
you manually moved articles around.  I'm talking as a Gnus user, maybe
the implementation is much more complex that way.  I don't know the
internals of mail moving.

> It would be really cool if ~/.nnmail-cache was stored on the server
> somehow.  Is there a way to store data like this alongside IMAP mail
> on a server?

I think the network usage would be too high for this.

> Hm.  Actually I'm going to be really really really really busy
> starting in a couple of days, so I'm afraid this might be no more
> than some wishful thinking and day-dreaming :-|

I hope someone else has interest in this!

Ted