Re: fetching mail for multiple servers

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> 
> > Right now, the algorithm for fetching mail is to go through all
> > servers in order.  For each server, check if it gets mail.  If so,
> > fetch mail from mail-sources and split it according to
> > nnmail-split-methods.
> > 
> > This means if there are two servers that get mail, Gnus fetches mail
> > for both of them but when processing the second one, no new mail is
> > left.
> > 
> > I suggest to add the following backward-compatible feature to Gnus:
> > when fetching mail for a server, look at server parameters
> > mail-sources and nnmail-split-methods.  If the server parameter is
> > set, use it, else use the value of the global variable instead.
> > 
> > This means that people could do something like this:
> > 
> > (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
> >       '((nnml "work"
> >          (nnml-directory "~/workmail/")
> >          (mail-sources '((pop :server "work.pop.server"))))
> >         (nnml "play"
> >          (nnml-directory "~/privatemail/")
> >          (mail-sources '((pop :server "private.pop.server"))))))
> > 
> 
> That looks very useful.  Its not clear from your post though, as to
> what will happen with the splitting.  Is it possible to make this
> works so that each server can have its own split code too?

That's what I meant.  Like so:

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '((nnml "work"
         (nnml-directory "~/workmail/")
         (nnmail-split-methods '(("" "mail.foo")))
         (mail-sources '((pop :server "work.pop.server"))))
        (nnml "play"
         (nnml-directory "~/privatemail/")
         (nnmail-split-methods '(("" "mail.bar")))
         (mail-sources '((pop :server "private.pop.server"))))))

Here, all mail from work.pop.server will go to nnml+work:mail.foo,
whereas mail from private.pop.server will go to nnml+play:mail.bar.

Coming to think of it, it might be necessary to also allow
nnmail-split-fancy as server parameter, too.

kai
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