Re: Split Rules

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

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> Outlook's rules wizard is not very effective.  What I want to be
> able to do is to use nnimap split rules to split my mail into
> folders that will then exist on the server - not just as gnus
> groups.

There is no distinction between a "gnus group" and "on the server"
with nnimap, in this regard.  When you IMAP split an article to
another mailbox it will exist on the server, and since nnimap shows
what's on the server, it will also be in your gnus groups.

Actually, there is a limitation with the current splitting, it can
only split articles to other IMAP mailboxes on the current server (not
into nnfolder's or something else). This was enough for me to use it,
but in the future you will of course be able to specify the backend
and group to split the article into.

>  Ideally, nnimap would create appropriate server folders if needed
> but, at minimum, would file the messages into the requisite folders
> assuming they existed.

Then nnimap is ideal. :-)

>  Also, are nnimap rules server-resident or gnus-resident?  Outlook
> can do both.  Rules that move messages into Outlook's personal
> folders (IOW copies to the hard disk) can only be client-resident.
> Those that move messages into server-based folders are
> server-resident.  What about nnimap?

nnimap is server-resident. Using Gnus you can have both (using
nnml/nnfolder/whatever for client-resident mail).

/s