It took a long harrowing day of debugging and rewriting elisp code capped by an hour of invigorating "OH CRAP DID I JUST DELETE 1100 UNREAD EMAIL MESSAGES?!", but I'm finally done - my office gnus setup with its last 3 years of email messages now works perfectly from home, connected to Wolfram's imap and smtp servers via vpn. Jamie S at the office tracked down my missing messages - it turns out that if you tell gnus to tell an imap server to split messages from INBOX to "imap-split", a file ~/imap-split is created with all the messages in it. 'G f' ahoy!
Along the way I finally read and understood The Fine Manual - it is possible to use an imap server as a simple message-serving pop server.
After the day's total immersion in elisp I switched back to mathematica to fix up some code and felt a bit of confusion, like trying to speak a foreign language I hadn't used for months.
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