Re: Moving from 2 pop3s to IMAP + pop3

Re: Moving from 2 pop3s to IMAP + pop3

[Kester Clegg]

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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Re: Moving from 2 pop3s to IMAP + pop3

[Kai Großjohann]

Kester Clegg <kester@cs.york.ac.uk> writes:

> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>         '((nnmail "private")))

When I migrated to nnimap, I added an entry there:

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
      '((nnmail "private")
        (nnimap "" (nnimap-address "name.of.imap.server"))))

Maybe additional parameters are required, but maybe the above is
enough.  Then you can hit ^ to enter the server buffer, then RET on
the nnimap server, then u to subscribe groups.

I take it you already have an account on the server and at least one
folder there?

kai
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