Conversation Splitting (Was: fetching mail for multiple servers)

[Arnd Kohrs <kohrs@acm.org>]

>>>>> "Harry" == Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

    Harry> Coming to think of it, it might be necessary to also allow
    Harry> nnmail-split-fancy as server parameter, too.

I use ¨conversation splitting¨ in combination with group splitting with
the following settings:
 
(setq nnmail-crosspost nil)
(setq nnmail-split-methods 'gnus-group-split)
(setq gnus-group-split-default-catch-all-group 
      '(| (: nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent)
          "mail.misc")) 

Of course, no other group should be configured with 'catch-all' !
First, messages are split into mailing lists, then into conversations
and if that didn't work they end up in my default box.

Other fancy splits may be defined in this default rule.  IMO, it
shouldn't be hard to write a function that rewrites old-style splitting
rules into fancy splits - on the other hand it is also not hard to do it
manually:

;; old style
((r1 g1)
 ......
 (rn gn)
 default) 

becomes 

;; fancy
(| (any r1 g1)
   ..........
   (any rn gn)
   default)

(The seemingly complex nature of fancy-splits scared me a long time away
from converting to fancy splitting)

Arnd

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