Re: IMAP server hierarchy as topics

[David Kagedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>]

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> >>>>> David Kagedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>:
> 
> > Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
> >> * make it possible to set a directory prefix for each IMAP server.
> >> This will make mail group names shorter when using the UoW imapd
> 
> > Even better:
> 
> > * Make it possible to duplicate the IMAP folder hierarchy with Gnus
> >   topics, and only showing the last part of the group names, since the
> >   full folder name (minus the root prefix) is available as the topic
> >   path.
> 
> On closer thought, the two requirements are separate.

Separate, but related.

On a related note, working with UoW poses problems if you want to
create mail folder from Gnus, since Gnus does not allow / in group
names.

I have applied this patch to my local copy.  It is probably not a good
idea to do this in the general case.

--- gnus.el	2000/01/31 22:08:08	5.127
+++ gnus.el	2000/02/15 10:27:39
@@ -2782,7 +2782,7 @@
 	group)
     (while (not group)
       (when (string-match
-	     "[: `'\"/]\\|^$"
+	     "[: `'\"]\\|^$"
 	     (setq group (read-string (concat prefix prompt)
 				      (cons (or default "") 0)
 				      'gnus-group-history)))


-- 
David Kågedal