Re: 0.99 deleted UNSEEN messages from my INBOX

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

INOUE Katsumi <kinoue@jp.oracle.com> writes:

> > You don't have a empty regexp matching "everything else". This is
> > wrong according to the documentation, but in practice I think it has
> > worked previously and 0.99 changed that.
> 
> OK, sorry. I vaguely remember that I read about that somewhere,
> maybe in this mailing list. But I saw a sample in nnimap.el below:
> 
> (setq nnimap-split-rule '((\"INBOX.gnus-imap\"   \"From:.*gnus-imap\")
> 			  (\"INBOX.junk\"        \"Subject:.*buy\")))
> 
> and assumed my setting is OK.

You're right. I've just been assuming everyone had a empty last
regexp.

I'll update the documentation to say that it's permitted but that you
might see a performance hit if you keep lots of unread articles in
that mailbox.

Thanks for pointing this out!