From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23650 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Soren Dayton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Proposal/Request for feature for splitting to FQ groups Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 19:29:39 GMT Organization: University of Chicago Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: Reply-To: csdayton@cs.uchicago.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161343 3137 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:49:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:49:03 +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 PAA12963 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:30:50 -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 OAB03703; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:30:06 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 01 Jul 1999 14:30:56 -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 OAA16916 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:30:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (sunsite.auc.dk [130.225.51.30]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA12930 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:29:41 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 17500 invoked by uid 509); 1 Jul 1999 19:29:40 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding User-Agent: Gnus/5.070089 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.89) XEmacs/21.1 (20 Minutes to Nikko) Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.135.11.60 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@sunsite.auc.dk Original-X-Trace: sunsite.auc.dk 930857379 128.135.11.60 (Thu, 01 Jul 1999 21:29:39 MET DST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 21:29:39 MET DST Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23650 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23650 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