how to split IMAP mail into local nnml group?

how to split IMAP mail into local nnml group?

[John S. J. Anderson]

I'm not even sure if this is possible, but I figured it can't hurt to
ask.

Currently, I use IMAP with Gnus. I have an extensive
nnimap-split-fancy list, one section of which detects mail from
various people and dumps it into an IMAP folder called
INBOX.people-incoming. I read the mail, respond or not, and then
manually move the mail to person-specific nnml folders (on the local
disk). So, mail from Bob or Alice goes into
nnimap:INBOX.people_incoming, then I move it to nnml:Bob or
nnml:Alice, as appropriate.

If I wanted to skip the manual move step, so that mail from Bob or
Alice would be pulled off the IMAP server and stuck right into
nnml:Bob or nnml:Alice, how would I (can I?) do that?

Thanks,
john.
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Re: how to split IMAP mail into local nnml group?

[David S. Goldberg]

It may be fraught with peril, but it's a thought.

Set up a imap mail source specifier for your INBOX.people_incoming
folder and use nnmail-split-fancy to direct it.  Probably would want
to have nnml-get-new-mail set to nil normally and only set it to t
when you want to do the splitting of the imap group.
-- 
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net

Re: how to split IMAP mail into local nnml group?

[Kai Großjohann]

jacobs@genehack.org (John S. J. Anderson) writes:

> If I wanted to skip the manual move step, so that mail from Bob or
> Alice would be pulled off the IMAP server and stuck right into
> nnml:Bob or nnml:Alice, how would I (can I?) do that?

You can put an `imap' mail-sources entry, but you'll need an
nnimap-split-methods entry to deal with the messages you fetch from
there.

kai
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Re: how to split IMAP mail into local nnml group?

[Kai Großjohann]

Kai.Grossjohann@cs.uni-dortmund.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> You can put an `imap' mail-sources entry, but you'll need an
> nnimap-split-methods entry to deal with the messages you fetch from
> there.

I meant nnmail-split-methods, not nnimap-split-rule.  Sorry.

kai
-- 
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Re: how to split IMAP mail into local nnml group?

[John S. J. Anderson]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> jacobs@genehack.org (John S. J. Anderson) writes:
>
>> If I wanted to skip the manual move step, so that mail from Bob or
>> Alice would be pulled off the IMAP server and stuck right into
>> nnml:Bob or nnml:Alice, how would I (can I?) do that?
>
> You can put an `imap' mail-sources entry, but you'll need an
> nnimap-split-methods entry to deal with the messages you fetch from
> there.

I haven't tried this yet, as I didn't feel like either trying it over
the modem or going into work over the weekend  -- but won't I have to
check for mail twice in order to get things into the nnml groups with
that? (Once to get it into the proper nnimap group, once to get it out
of the nnimap group and into the nnml group.)

What I'd really like to able to do is put fully qualified group names
in nnimap-split-fancy (like "nnml:bob") and then have gnus Do The
Right Thing...

john.
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Re: how to split IMAP mail into local nnml group?

[David S. Goldberg]

>>>>> On Sun, 02 Dec 2001 22:54:55 -0500, jacobs@genehack.org (John S. J. Anderson) said:

> I haven't tried this yet, as I didn't feel like either trying it over
> the modem or going into work over the weekend  -- but won't I have to
> check for mail twice in order to get things into the nnml groups with
> that? (Once to get it into the proper nnimap group, once to get it out
> of the nnimap group and into the nnml group.)

Maybe, maybe not.  It'll depend on whether mail-sources are split
before or after nnimap splitting occurs.  Not sure if that's
configurable.

> What I'd really like to able to do is put fully qualified group names
> in nnimap-split-fancy (like "nnml:bob") and then have gnus Do The
> Right Thing...

This, or a similar variant, has been on the Gnus wishlist for a long
time, I think.

-- 
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net