Re: gnus nnml/nnimap-split-fancy

[Eric Abrahamsen]

On 03/25/20 22:00 PM, Phillip Lord wrote:
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>>> Yes, and I don't understand why not. I wonder how big a fix it would be.
>>>
>>> I have no idea.  Lars, Eric, what do you think?
>>
>> The way splitting happens is that it happens inside the backend.  So the
>> splitting would have to be reorganised to happen in Gnus instead for
>> that to work.
>
>
> Ah, unfortunate. Could it just be as simple as returning a lambda
> instead of a group name? Although as you describe I guess this would
> need to be implemented for each backend?

Probably the split specs could just return a fully-qualified group name,
and the code could check if the group belonged to a separate backend and
behave differently. But you're right, as Lars notes that would have to
be done in each backend.