Re: nnimap splitting

[Leo Butler]

phillip.lord@russet.org.uk writes:
> On 2020-12-10 18:58, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk wrote:
>> On 2020-12-10 18:36, Pankaj Jangid wrote:
>>> Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
>>> 
>> I think
>> I am looking in the wrong place and my configuration here is not the
>> issue at all. I have no idea, unfortunately, what the issue is. If
>> this is supposed to work in Gnus, I think, it is getting all the
>> server information from somehwere else. NOt sure where!

C-h v gnus-server-alist RET

gnus-server-alist is a variable defined in ‘gnus.el’.
Its value is shown below.

Documentation:
Servers created by Gnus, or via the server buffer.
Servers defined in the user’s config files do not appear here.
This variable is persisted in the user’s .newsrc.eld file.

Value:
...


You need to edit this variable.

It's an odd design and I banged my head against this one for years
before I finally figured out why Gnus kept trying to open servers that I
had deleted from gnus-secondary-select-methods.

Leo


>
>
> And this turns out to be the problem. I tried changing
> secondary-select-methods to this:
>
>
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>       '(
>         (nnimap "localhost"
>                 ;;(nnimap-address "localhost")
>                 ;;(nnimap-server-port 143)
>                 (nnimap-address "i-dont-exist")
>                 (nnimap-server-port 'random-nonsense)
>                 ;; [...]
>                 (nnimap-inbox "INBOX")
>                 (nnimap-split-methods
>                  (("temp" "^Subject: split-into-temp")
>                   ("INBOX" "")))
>        (nnml ""
>               (nnir-search-engine notmuch))))
>
> And Gnus still works, still looks up the nnimap back end, still access
> the email
> despite the clearly incorrect address and server port. It doesn't
> appear to be using
> the information here at all. Confusing as it is using the nnml
> information.
>
> I am now officially very confused.
>
> Phil