Re: nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent comments

[Danny Siu <dsiu@adobe.com>]

On a similar topics, I have nnmail-cache-accepted-message-ids set to t and
yet 'B m' articles between IMAP groups doesn't record the group name along
with message id in .nnmail-cache as it should.

i have nnmail-treat-duplicates set to 'warn

anyone seeing the same?

Jan Rychter writes:

  Jan> I've been playing with nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent and I find it
  Jan> very confusing, to say the least. It seems some of the effects are
  Jan> quite unexpected. I've already reported one of them (the manual needs
  Jan> to be made clearer about nnmail-cache-accepted-message-ids).

  Jan> I've also just discovered that setting
  Jan> nnmail-cache-accepted-message-ids to t produces some additional
  Jan> unwanted side effects: Gnus promptly records ALL accepted messages,
  Jan> including the ones I've sent myself, which are filed in archive
  Jan> groups. This means two things:

  Jan> -- since I have nnmail-treat-duplicates set to 'delete, I will never
  Jan>       see E-mails that I've sent (since their message-id's got stored
  Jan>       in .nnmail-cache),

  Jan> -- the replies to my E-mails will come back and get filed in... you
  Jan>       guessed it: archive groups. That's exactly where .nnmail-cache
  Jan>       will point to.

  Jan> I guess for nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent to work as I expected it
  Jan> would have to ignore E-mails stored in the archive groups, which in
  Jan> my case are also nnml: (setq gnus-message-archive-method '(nnml
  Jan> "private")) I guess there is no easy way to do that -- can such
  Jan> functionality be added?

  Jan> Another completely different issue is how
  Jan> nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent handles crossposts. Namely, it doesn't
  Jan> handle them at all, since .nnmail-cache only stores ONE group
  Jan> name. Can .nnmail-cache be made to keep more than just ONE group, and
  Jan> correspondingly, nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent be made to crosspost
  Jan> incoming articles into several groups according to .nnmail-cache?

  Jan> --J.


-- 
Danny Siu