Re: Patch submission: Allow group-local mail sources for nnmail

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Tue, Jan 01 2008, Michael Sperber wrote:

> I've had the following problem forever: I get *lots* of e-mail, and I
> travel a lot.  I often have a slow Internet connection.  For this
> reason, I pre-sort the e-mail into different IMAP folders on the server,
> and would like to only selectively fetch what I want depending on where
> I am.  Unfortunately, `mail-sources' is global to all groups---I would
> really like to say "fetch the new mail for this group from this IMAP
> folder".
>
> To do this, I've added a `group' mail source which activates a
> `mail-source' group parameter, which does the job.  

How do you actually use it?  Hitting `M-g'
(gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group,
gnus-topic-get-new-news-this-topic) on the group?

> The attached patch is relative to today's CVS.
>
> Could this be applied to the code?

The patch is too large to be installed without legal papers.  AFAICS,
your assignments only cover XEmacs and AUCTeX.  So we need an
additional assignments, either for Gnus or for Emacs (which covers
Gnus as well).  If you are willing to sign, I'll send you the form
off-list.

> Of course, I'm also happy to hear suggestions for improvement.

It's not clear to me how to use it (after reading the patch to
gnus.texi).  Is the `mail-source' Group parameter boolean or a mail
source specification?  Is it necessary to adjust both, the group
parameter and the variable `mail-sources'?

Bye, Reiner.
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