From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24884 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Q] multiple mail backends ? Date: 27 Aug 1999 22:20:24 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162373 11176 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:06:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:06:13 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA12830 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:23:16 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAB23451; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:22:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:22:58 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA13754 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:22:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (bang.netfonds.no [195.1.89.231]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA12751 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:20:45 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by quimbies.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA13314; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 22:23:18 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Lois McMaster Bujold's _The Mirror Game_ X-Now-Playing: Joni Mitchell's _Shadows And Light (cd1)_: "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann's?= message of "20 Jul 1999 16:41:14 +0200" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) XEmacs/21.2 (Sumida) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > There has been a discussion about this previously. The upshot was, I > think, to make the mail fetching mechanism take place in multiple > steps. First, you fetch mail from a number of sources and put it all > into the same backend. Subsequent steps may fetch from a specific > group in a specific backend (rather than from a POP server, say) and > put it into a second (third, fourth, ...) backend. > > I think Lars has said he's thinking about maybe implementing this. > Correct me if I'm wrong, Lars. I've been thinking, and I'm still thinking that it's a pretty marginal functionality for quote a lot of work. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen