using a news server as a mail-source?

using a news server as a mail-source?

[Dan Christensen]

Wouldn't it be nice if you could specify a newsgroup and a news server
as a mail-source?  The articles would be downloaded from the news
server and stored in whatever mail backend you use.  Why not just read
the group via the nntp backend?  Well, doing it with a mail backend
would let you:

- filter the articles into groups in various ways, not just based
  on the newsgroup they came from
- edit articles [annotations, deleting attachments, etc]
- move relevant mail messages you receive into the same group
  as the news message that started a private conversation
- supplement a flakey newsfeed by reading from two news servers
  and deleting duplicates
- not worry about articles expiring on the server for groups you
  read sporadically

I'm imagining using this for low volume groups.  I read several low
volume groups for which the above features would be great.

Any thoughts?  Would it be hard to implement?

Dan

Re: using a news server as a mail-source?

[Kai Großjohann]

As a stopgap measure, you could enter the group, frob
nnmail-split-methods appropriately, and use `M P a B r' to respool all
the articles in it.

I wonder if that actually works.

kai
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