Re: group splitting and gnus-secondary-select-methods

[Christoph Groth]

Eric, Emanuel,

Thank you for the quick replies!  Perhaps I haven't been clear: 
when I said that I'm trying to setup "group mail splitting" I 
didn't mean plain mail splitting (I have been using that one since 
the begin of the century or so), I meant what the Gnus manual 
calls "group mail splitting" (there's a section on it).  Gnus has 
functionality to generate fancy splitting rules automatically for 
groups that contain 'to-list' or 'to-address' parameters.  If you 
have defined these parameters for some groups and evaluate 
(gnus-group-split-fancy), you'll get a split that can be assigned 
to the variable nnimap-split-fancy.

So far so good, the only problem is that at the time that ~/.gnus 
gets executed, (gnus-group-split-fancy) returns an empty split 
'(&)'.  You can see this by putting
(setq my-group-split-fancy-result (gnus-group-split-fancy))
in your ~/.gnus and examining the variable.  It seems to me that 
this is because when it executes its configuration file, Gnus 
doesn't yet know what groups there are.

That's why I've been using hooks to set the variable 
gnus-secondary-select-methods.  Gnus has some functionality to 
setup hooks for group mail splitting by itself, but this doesn't 
cover multiple select methods.

The hooks that I've found (gnus-read-newsrc-el-hook and 
gnus-get-new-news-hook), but I'm not sure whether that's the best 
way to setup things.  And if it is, it should be maybe added to 
the manual.

Christoph

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