Re: nnimap and split with parent

["Andreas Büsching" <crunchy@tzi.de>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) wrote:

> Andreas Büsching <crunchy@tzi.de> writes:
>
>> As everybody can see I'm using Oort Gnus und as one mail backend I'm
>> using nnimap. With the current CVS version of Oort Gnus nnimap works
>> very fine and fast. Just one more feature I would like to have: For some
>> other mail backend[1] there is a function called
>> nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent (or somehting like that). Is can be used
>> to move mails into the same folder as there parents. is there any way to
>> have this feature with nnimap?
>
> It would be fairly easy to change nnimap splitting such that it looks
> at ~/.nnmail-cache.  But you have to change more code in nnmail.el so
> that it works well with nnimap.
>
> Currently, the whole thing is rather limited, I'm afraid: it works
> only for one backend.  It stores group names without the server name
> in .nnmail-cache and if the `primary mail backend' changes all that
> data is bogus.

That would be no problem for me, because I just want to do this kind of
splitting with my IMAP boxes. Because nnimap does not comply with the
properties for a 'primary-mail-backend' (option respool and function
*-get-new-mail) Gnus thinks, that nnfolder is my primary backend (used
for archives).

> Wasn't there somebody working on changing this?  I forget.  But I
> think you will find something in the archives for the Gnus mailing
> list.

I think so too, but I can't find anything on
http://www.gnus.org/list-archives/ding/.

crunchy

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