From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11604 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jost Krieger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Quassia Wishes: Decoupling Date: 14 Jul 1997 13:39:22 +0200 Sender: kriegjcb@sunu115.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.81) Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Multipart_Mon_Jul_14_13:39:22_1997-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151287 31360 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:01:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:01:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id FAA07750 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 05:47:56 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA00759 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 07:44:45 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 13:39:57 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 31973 invoked by uid 504); 14 Jul 1997 11:39:45 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 31970 invoked from network); 14 Jul 1997 11:39:44 -0000 Original-Received: from sunu450.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (HELO mailhost.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de) (134.147.222.33) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 14 Jul 1997 11:39:43 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 5605 invoked from network); 14 Jul 1997 11:39:23 -0000 Original-Received: from sunu115.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (134.147.128.239) by mailhost.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de with SMTP; 14 Jul 1997 11:39:23 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 11689 invoked by uid 10167); 14 Jul 1997 11:39:22 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.37/Emacs 19.34 Original-Lines: 55 Original-Xref: altair.xemacs.org dgnus-list:1994 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11604 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11604 --Multipart_Mon_Jul_14_13:39:22_1997-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII As Larsi is going out hacking Quassia (going in perhaps?), I'd like to take out one of my favorite nags: Decoupling of mail acquisition, mail storage, and posting. Gnus used to be a news reader, as everybody knows :-) News are put in the right place by the news system, and posting on most machines is just done by nntp. Fine! When adding mail, the picture gets more complicated. In the old days, mail arrived in a nice file you could use movemail on, and then you filtered it into the correct boxes. But nowadays, mail arrives in the funniest ways, like prefiltered by procmail, or laid out in a Maildir by qmail, or a few of them at the same time. Also, there are more and more storage possibilities, nnml (nice and fast), nnfolder (works nicely with compression) and so on. And then there are those mails that can be only read with Netscape (fee!), hack what you like. So, what I would like to have, is an acquisition method associated with each (mail storage) server, and for symmetry, a posting method, too. In the same area, I still dream about a mail filtering mechanism that filters into different servers. Hitting "g" would walk the active mail acquisition methods, not the mail storage methods like now. Respooling could be manual like now, or go through the global mail-filter. To make that upward compatible would mean an additional alist to pick out the server, I think. Talking about filtering: From time to time, I would like to filter by body contents (I know it's slow, but it would be prefiltered by from or to). Any chance ? Jost --Multipart_Mon_Jul_14_13:39:22_1997-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable -- Jost Krieger, Postmaster, Rechenzentrum der Ruhr-Universit=E4t Bochum Jost.Krieger@ruhr-uni-bochum.de --Multipart_Mon_Jul_14_13:39:22_1997-1--