Re: howto plonk nnimap into nnml

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

Emmanuel Michon <michon@enst.fr> writes:

> Well, now, I would like to set up gnus so that the IMAP mail
> is split and directed to nnml-style files.

No functions for doing exists in nnimap. The nnimap mail splitting is
nnimap specific, just like the nnmail splitting is nnmail specific.

To be able to split across backends in Gnus we need a general
backend-independent splitting function. When I wrote the nnimap
splitting stuff I started on this but soon found out that it's
incredibly slow -- fetching entire articles and moving them around is
costly. So I settled for a faster nnimap specific way.

This is on the todo-list in nnimap.el though.

> I select all incoming mail and use ``B r'' to redispatch it
> to my nnml server, which splits with traditional 
> nnmail-split-methods. 

You got respooling to work?   Funny, I though it didn't work. :-)

> If not the automatic solution is to put the lisp functions
> corresponding to select-all and B r in my .gnus, but this is not a
> beautiful way to do it...

I think this is the easiest way of doing this right now.

/s