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>>>>> David Kagedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>:

> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
>> * make it possible to set a directory prefix for each IMAP server.
>> This will make mail group names shorter when using the UoW imapd

> Even better:

> * Make it possible to duplicate the IMAP folder hierarchy with Gnus
>   topics, and only showing the last part of the group names, since the
>   full folder name (minus the root prefix) is available as the topic
>   path.

Hm... but I use topics as a logical grouping, grouping news groups and 
mail groups about the same things.  Won't this approach conflict with
that?