From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24405 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Q] multiple mail backends ? Date: 20 Jul 1999 16:41:14 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161976 8525 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:59:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:59:36 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA13040 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:46:23 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAB17236; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:42:41 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:43:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA03754 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:43:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA12910 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:41:48 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from petty.cs.uni-dortmund.de (petty.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.161]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP id QAA17933 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:41:16 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: (grossjoh@localhost) by petty.cs.uni-dortmund.de id QAA19789; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:41:15 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Didier Verna's message of "20 Jul 1999 14:41:25 +0200" Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) Emacs/20.3.11 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24405 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24405 Didier Verna writes: > Is there a way of using multiple mail backends simultaneously from the > same mail sources ? There has been a discussion about this previously. The upshot was, I think, to make the mail fetching mechanism take place in multiple steps. First, you fetch mail from a number of sources and put it all into the same backend. Subsequent steps may fetch from a specific group in a specific backend (rather than from a POP server, say) and put it into a second (third, fourth, ...) backend. I think Lars has said he's thinking about maybe implementing this. Correct me if I'm wrong, Lars. If you really need it right now, you could kluge it as follows: fetch mail normally into the first mail backend. Then, write a function which temporarily frobs the list of mail backends and temporarily changes nnmail-split-methods, and then respools all messages from a specific group. kai -- Life is hard and then you die.