Subject: bug#21892: nnimap and re-spooling

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 23:23:37 +0100

Andreas Politz <[email-masked]> writes:

> I think there is something wrong with re-spooling articles in nnimap
> groups.  I have setup splitting like this
>
> (setq gnus-select-method
>       '(nnimap "localhost"
> 	       (nnimap-stream shell)
> 	       (nnimap-shell-program "/usr/lib/dovecot/imap")
> 	       (nnimap-inbox "INBOX")
> 	       (nnimap-split-methods nnimap-split-fancy)
> 	       (nnimap-split-fancy
> 		(| ("subject" ".*\\[blah\\].*" "blah")))))
>
> Now, hitting `B t' on a article with a matching subject tells me, it'll
> go into the blah group. But actually doing the re-spooling via `B r' does
> nothing, i.e. the article remains unmoved.  Looking at
> `nnimap-request-accept-article', it seems that the nnimap-split-*
> variables are pretty ignored.

Yes, it consults nnmail-split-methods.  If you just set that and not
nnimap-split-methods things should work OK...

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