Re: Respooling Problem

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

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> I tried respooling from an nnml folder to an nnimap:INBOX/FOO/BAR folder.
> This folder did not yet exist.  The respool hung and the following message
> displayed in the Message Log:
> 
>         Moving to nnimap: (4 5 7)...
>         STATUS  (UIDNEXT)
> 
> I quit (C-g) and decided to try a move command to move the messages to the
> nnimap folder.  Gnus correctly reported that the destination folder did not
> exist and offered to create it, which it did.  It then successfully moved the
> messages to the nnimap folder.

Respooling is a nnmail-specific as far as I can tell. Nnimap isn't a
nnmail backend, so it does not support it.

I have no idea why we announce that we do though. :-) The patch should
get you a error message or something.

/s

--- nnimap.el	1998/08/12 20:58:58	1.10
+++ nnimap.el	1998/08/12 21:27:52
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
 
 (eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
 
-(gnus-declare-backend "nnimap" 'mail 'respool 'address 'prompt-address 
+(gnus-declare-backend "nnimap" 'mail 'address 'prompt-address 
 		      'physical-address)
 
 (nnoo-declare nnimap) ; we derive from no one