Re: IMAP functions

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

acc@anthonychavez.org writes:

> I don't have a whole lot of time to research this in-depth right now, so
> I thought I'd pose the question to the group. :-)
>
> I have been looking for some elisp functions that wrap up IMAP.  I would
> like to rename, delete, and create mailboxes as well as have full access
> to what services IMAP provides (especially through Gnus).  I was combing
> through nnimap.el the other day, and it seems (at first glance) that
> there's a lot of functionality there.
>
> The question is: how do I access it?  Would I have to make my own
> keybindings and such or does Gnus provide access to those functions and
> I'm just not seeing it?

Renaming, deleting and creating groups is already implemented.  Look
in the Gnus manual.

If you want to write your own MUA with those features, looking at
imap.el is probably better, since nnimap is rather Gnus specific, and
is quite inefficient too.