[Q] multiple mail backends ?

[Q] multiple mail backends ?

[Didier Verna]

        Is there a way of using multiple mail backends simultaneously from the
same mail sources ?

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Re: [Q] multiple mail backends ?

[Kai Großjohann]

Didier Verna <verna@inf.enst.fr> 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
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Re: [Q] multiple mail backends ?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:

> 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.

I've been thinking, and I'm still thinking that it's a pretty marginal 
functionality for quote a lot of work.

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