xFire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i mean how to read the nnml dirctory with other mail back end?
The one disadvantage of nnml is that Gnus is the only program that uses it. It's very similar to other file-per-message backends, like maildir and MH, though, and you can look at the nnml directory and read the messages directly outside of Emacs (heresy!). The big difference is a file called .overview that contains the information needed for the summary buffer; this means that nnml is "fast" because it only needs to read the .overview file and not dig through individual messages. I do sometimes dig through the files directly if I need something quickly and starting Emacs is too much of a pain (heresy!). grepping the .overview file will give me a message number, and then I can cat that file directly. Since you mentioned "mail source" in the message line, it's also worth mentioning that if you're using nnml you're probably pulling mail off of your mail server, and it's gone from there. If you have an IMAP mail source you can configure it to not delete messages (see :fetchflag in info://gnus/Mail+Source+Specifiers). For POP3 it's harder but asked often enough that Google should be able to tell you. HTH, --dzm _______________________________________________ Info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
