Re: Help w/ nnimap-split-methods ?

[David Masterson]

Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> writes:

> David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com> writes:
>
>> (setq nnimap-split-methods
>>       '(
>>      ("mail.orgmode" "^\\(To:\\|Cc:\\).*emacs-orgmode@gnu.org.*$")
>>      ("mail.emacs" "^\\(To:\\|Cc:\\).*help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.*$")
>>      ("mail.devel" "^\\(To:\\|Cc:\\).*emacs-devel@gnu.org.*$")
>>      ("mail.misc" "")
>>      )
>>       )
>>
>> With this setting, I have a few questions:
>> 1. I still get Junk email, but I thought the above would put junk in
>> mail.misc.  Why is the Junk folder being created/used?
>> 2. Some, but not all, messages that should be parsed by the regexps and
>> put into appropriate mail folders, but wind up in Junk.  Why?
>> 3. Once in awhile, things do show up in mail.misc instead of Junk.  Does
>> that make sense?
>
> 1. Since you are using IMAP, some of the groups (folders) that you see
>    are coming from the server. Junk is probably one such folder on your
>    outlook.com account. This is created by the server.
>
> 2. Those messages which are marked by outlook.com server as spam are
>    going into Junk before reaching Gnus. Hence the split is /not/
>    working for them.
>
> 3. Those messages which escape the outlook spam filter are going through
>    your split chain and ending up in mail.misc.

Hmm. This makes sense. Can I set the Junk folder as another Inbox and,
thus, run it through nnimap-split-methods as well??

-- 
David Masterson