Re: nnimap questions

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

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

>     Simon> There's no predefined way of respooling articles from nnimap into
>     Simon> other backends. A IMAP mail source (which uses the IMAP server as
>     Simon> a POP server) should be written, which would solve that problem.
> 
>     Simon> Respool querying is not solved by any of this though, which might
>     Simon> be a nice feature to have.
> 
> Can you explain?  Why can't normal respooling work and what do you mean by an 
> "IMAP mail source" and "respool querying"?

The Gnus "respool" commands are hardcoded to use things (such as
`nnmail-split-methods') from the nnmail package. Nnimap doesn't
use/support that so they simply don't work.

The mail source idea is new to PGnus, and lets you specify where Gnus
fetches your messages from; POP, /var/spool/mail/foo etc. If a IMAP
mail source was available, you could copy articles you'd wish to
respool, into a IMAP mailbox and then have nnmail/nnml fetch all mail
from it instead of /var/spool/mail/foo or your POP server, and split
articles into nnml folders ("respooling into a non-nnimap backend").

Respool querying is the `B q' command, it tells you which group the
current article would go if you respooled it.