From: Kester Clegg <kester@RemoveThisBit.cs.york.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Moving from 2 pop3s to IMAP + pop3
Date: 02 Dec 2002 15:12:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yqrhedwv4io.fsf@cs.york.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84wums1n2q.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> Kester Clegg <kester@RemoveThisBit.cs.york.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > Yes, as it seems there's a whole world of people out there with more
> > than one mail account on different servers, and they can't always choose
> > their backend. But if you do use nnimap as pop++, downloading
> > everything locally, can you then use a single set of split rules for
> > both an nnmail server & your nnimap one? I suspect not, but I'd welcome
> > someone to prove me wrong.
>
> In fact, it would be difficult to use a different set of rules! If
> you have several entries in mail-sources, Gnus will process all of
> the mails it finds there through nnmail-split-methods.
Excellent - I think I might try to forget IMAP's mail storage
capabilities. :-)
[...]
> > The manual glibly suggests you put your imap details in the mail-sources
> > if you want to download stuff locally and focuses on using imap as a
> > mail storage protocol. It doesn't indicate how taking that decision
> > could limit you if you have a pop3 account elsewhere. <grumble> I know
> > that's not gnus's fault, but the whole splitting thing when you've got
> > mail coming from different sources is an area that could be made a bit
> > clearer!</grumble>
>
> Well, err. I'll update the docs if you help me.
I'll be happy to, but you might have to check what I say makes sense!
Do you want to mail me offline with what you want?
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Kester Clegg Dept. of Computer Science,
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