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Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> >>>>> David Kagedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>:
>=20
> > 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
>=20
> > Even better:
>=20
> > * 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.
>=20
> Hm... but I use topics as a logical grouping, grouping news groups an=
d=20
> mail groups about the same things.  Won't this approach conflict with
> that?=20

Yes it would, and I wouldn't want to force it on you.  I previously
used topics like you do, but since I switched to IMAP, and started
reading mail from several IMAP sources, and no NNTP, I prefer to group
them by server, because that is logical to me; one topic for work, and
one of private stuff.

--=20
David K=E5gedal