bug#42131: Cannot split to IMAP folders

[David Greene]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Ah, that's where it's coming from.  `B q' is this:
>
> (defun gnus-summary-respool-query (&optional silent trace)
>
> [...]
>
>                ;; nnimap has its own splitting variables.
>                (let ((nnmail-split-methods
>                       (cond
>                        ((eq nnimap-split-methods 'default)
>                         nnmail-split-methods)
>                        (nnimap-split-methods
>                         nnimap-split-methods)
>                        (nnimap-split-fancy
>                         'nnmail-split-fancy)))
>                      (nnmail-split-fancy (or nnimap-split-fancy
>                                              nnmail-split-fancy)))
>
>
> So I'm guessing your fallback nil means that the machinery is falling
> back on the fallback group "mail.misc" for fancy mail splitting...
> Hm...  but that should be shadowed here.  But I think we're on the trail
> of the bug now.

That still doesn't explain why "B q" reports the correct group but "B r"
goes to mail.misc.  Do they not use the same selection logic?

Also, since I am apparently not "splitting" using those commands, how
would I actually test splitting?

                   -David