From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1558 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kester Clegg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Moving from 2 pop3s to IMAP + pop3 Date: 02 Dec 2002 15:12:31 +0000 Organization: Rolls Royce UTC, Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, UK Message-ID: References: <84hee5bsy5.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <84of8dv0or.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <84wums1n2q.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668298 11770 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:44:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:44:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:21 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!bnewspeer00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!bnewspeer01.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!lnewspeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!server1.netnews.ja.net!news.york.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Sender: kc11@york.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pc310.cs.york.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: pump1.york.ac.uk 1038841950 24462 144.32.40.101 (2 Dec 2002 15:12:30 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@york.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Dec 2002 15:12:30 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1698 Original-Lines: 39 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1698 Tue Jan 17 17:29:21 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1558 Archived-At: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Kester Clegg 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. 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! > > 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? -- ************************************************************************ Kester Clegg Dept. of Computer Science, Research Assistant (UTC) University of York, Tel (01904) 43 27 49 email: kester at cs.york.ac.uk ************************************************************************