Re: Proposal/Request for feature for splitting to FQ groups

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

wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:

> Soren Dayton <csdayton@cs.uchicago.edu> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Ooooh oooh me too!
> 
> Please please please?!?!?! :)
> 
> I volunteer lots of beer if this gets into pgnus before it gets a 'real'
> number and we don't add any more features.  'GCC' can do this kind of
> thing, so why not the splitting code? :)

So, I've thought about it some more, and there may be good reasons `why
not the splitting code'.  I don't see a good failure behavior.  What
happens if the method cannot be brought up (it is on a down file server,
the imap server isn't up, I just deleted the directory that stores the
messages for that method, etc.).

For Gcc, it's easy because it's the user's problem.  Gnus beeps at me,
and I go fix it or change it or whatever.

But if I've been on vacation for a month, I start up gnus, and go take a
shower (after all, bbdb splitting ain't fast) and it starts splitting.
And my imap server (which I am splitting messages into) is down.  I'm
screwed.  Stick it somewhere where I have to split 500 messages by hand?
Not me.  Stick it in the crash box?  Eep.

What would the right behavior be here?

Soren