Re: gnus nnml/nnimap-split-fancy

[Phillip Lord]

Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org> writes:

> Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
>
>> Is there a way to get either nnml or nnimap split across backends?
>>
>
> Not that I know of, but I too would love to be able to split across
> backends, e.g. from one nnimap backend to another, or from an nnimap
> backend to an nnfolder one perhaps.


Yes, and I don't understand why not. I wonder how big a fix it would be.


> [...]
>
>>
>> Finally, with nnimap splitting, the default group is "bogus". How I
>> specific "don't do anything with the message, but leave it where it
>> is"?
>>
>
> I manually specify the name of the inbox like so:
>
> (nnimap "gnu"
>         ;; [...]
>         (nnimap-inbox "INBOX")
>         (nnimap-split-methods 'nnimap-split-fancy)
>         (nnimap-split-fancy (|
>                              ;; [...]
>                              ;; otherwise, leave mail in INBOX
>                              "INBOX")))
>
> Not sure if there's a better way.

And does that work? I mean it doesn't remove the message and then read
add it or some such? I presume that splitting only happens over unread
messages, because I use "inbox infinite" -- so I get a lot of messages
there.