Re: Automatically authenticating at local imap server

[David <de_bb@arcor.de>]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
> But one thing is left: Is there a way to jump from a message in the
> search result group to the original nnimap group?  I often do a search
> to find a message I want to reply to and the reply has to be done from
> the original group so that posting styles and group parameters are
> considered.

That's on the TODO list - I always wanted a function that jumps to the
original message in the original group, but it's not trivial to do. My
idea was to call mairix with "m:<MID>", where MID is the message-id of
the article. Using the "-r" option, we get the full path of the mail
file and it should be possible to uniquely identify the group from the
path (the problem here is that the user might index several different
mail back ends with one mairix installation). Jumping to the original
message in this group is another problem since we only know the
message-id but not the article number. nnmaildir and nnml support
fetching articles by message-id, but AFAIK nnimap does not. Maybe it is
somehow possible to apply the correct posting style even when replying
from the nnmairix group, then we wouldn't have to get the original
article in the first place.

-David