Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> >>>>> Jost Krieger writes:
> 
>   Jost> I usually use nnml to keep my mail cleanly sorted.
>   Jost> Unfortunately, a few of the mails contain html, and w3 in
>   Jost> combination with Emacs 19.34 is not quite up to the task. So,
>   Jost> I have to read those with *shudder* Netscape.
> 
> Huh?
> 
> (1) You could tell your friendly MIME processing thingy (probably tm
>     or rmime.el) to start netscape for HTML messages, couldn't you?
> 
>     The following .mailcap entry comes in handy here:
>       text/html; netscape -remote "openURL(file:%s,new-window)"
> 
> (2) Some of your mail groups can be nnml groups and some can be
>     nnfolder, and you can use gnus-split-methods to put some messages
>     in nnml groups and some in nnfolder groups.  Or you can use "B m".
> 
> I like (1).

But you can't always do what you like :-)
I can't imagine you want to here this, but:

My emacs runs on a central host because of the bloated BBDB database.

My netscape runs on the local host because of X timing problems using ssh.

tm writes the html file to /tmp/something and fires up netscape who
tells his colleague to go and find the file which isn't there on the
other machine.

So I revert to (2) and talking about Gnus.

What I would like to know is how to split incoming things to different backends
(with fancy splitting). I just cannot get it to work.

"B m" works, but that's what I would like to avoid.

Jost