Proposal/Request for feature for splitting to FQ groups

[Soren Dayton <csdayton@cs.uchicago.edu>]

So I was playing with splitting again (this is a hobby of mine) and I
would really like to be able to split from my nnml backend into an
nnimap mailbox.  This would be really, really nice for me.

So my question is how?  This is a proposal for how it might work.

Basically, the idea is that nnmail-split-methods/nnimap-split-rule
should be able to return something of the form:


        nnml:foo.bar.baz

or

        nnimap:foo.bar.baz

or whatever.

The problem seems to me to be distinguishing the gnus-select-method
case, from every other case.  That is, consider that I might have an
nnml group alt.emacs.religion.  Currently, if nnmail-split-methods
produces alt.emacs.religion, then it goes to nnml:alt.emacs.religion.
But if you could split into a different server, why isn't it going to
alt.emacs.religion (other than its really annoying behavior)

It seems to me that the issue is that everything that is not fully
qualified (and thus nntp:alt.emacs.religion in this case) would go to
the currently running server.

That is, more generally,

        `gnus-select-method':foo == foo  

which would be a special case, and everything else would behave
normally.  Unless there are re-entry problems, this _should_ be
doable, shouldn't it?

I haven't looked at the code, but if the re-entry problems are not
there, would this be an ok thing to add to the distribution?

Thanks
Soren