Richard Riley <[email protected]> writes:
> [email protected] (Adam Sjøgren) writes:
>
>> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:51:54 +0100, Richard wrote:
>>
>>> Why is this a "spool" directory?
>>
>>> The word "spool" is throwing me. I thought "spool" meant it was
>>> spooled to you and then stored in a backend .. like nnml.
>> A "(news)spool" in news-related terms is usually where the articles
>> are stored in a newsserver (the meaning used here).
>> A mail-spool is usually where mail is stored locally until the user
>> fetches it (/var/mail or /var/spool/mail).
>> In the documentation nnml is described as the backend that most
>> closely resembles a newsspool, so that is probably where the choice
>> of word comes from. And perhaps also some of the confusion.
>
> I think in the context it's incorrect but wouldnt put my mortgage on
> it ...
>
> nnml-directory is not a spool really : the var/spool source is.
>
> And checking values now, I see, and amazingly confusing, that
>
> ,----
> | Its value is "~/.emacs.d/Mail/archive"
> `----
>
> How I dont know as I set
>
> (setq nnml-directory "~/Mail")
>
> bah ;) I need to start all over again ...
Hi Richard,
Here's a snip from my .gnus file. It may be totally irrelevant, becasue
I have een smewhat confused by this discussion!! - but it may help ;-)
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
;,----
;| MAIL SETTINGS AND MAIL SORTING ---------------------------------------------
;`----
; nnml is, as you know a mail backend - the nnml (I wonder if nnml stand
; for Not NorMaL) format is what results when gnus grabs mail from the
; two mail sources below. I use getmail to dump all my mail into
; /home/glyn/Mail/inbox; system mail goes to /var/spool/mail/glyn. gnus
; grabs mail from both sources, I assume transmogrifies it by elisp-magic
; into nnml format, and then shoves it through my fancy-splitting
; set-up. (Just a fraction of that here!) I read the mail from the groups
; created by the fancy splitting - SLACKLIST, FREEBSD, FVWM etc etc
(setq
gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml ""))
mail-sources '((file :path "/home/glyn/Mail/inbox")
(file :path "/var/spool/mail/glyn")))
(setq nnmail-split-methods 'nnmail-split-fancy
nnmail-split-fancy
'(|
; system mail from Charlie Root
(from ".*[email protected]" "SYSTEM")
; diary entries
("Subject" ".*Diary" "DIARY")
; Spam rejection
; ("Subject" ".*" "spam")
("Subject" ".*lottery" "spam")
("Subject" ".*LOTTERY" "spam")
("Subject" ".*BEQUEST" "spam")
("Subject" ".*BALLOT" "spam")
("Subject" ".*NatWest" "spam")
("Subject" ".*OFFICE" "spam")
("Subject" ".*inches" "spam")
("Subject" ".*FUND" "spam")
; linux etc Mailing lists.
(any ".*slackware-ot" "SLACKLIST")
(any ".*slackware@mailman.*" "SLACKLIST")
(any ".*pkg-annc-request.*" "SLACKLIST")
(any ".*[email protected]" "SLACKLIST")
; (any ".*freebsd.*" "FREEBSD")
(any ".*FreshPorts.org" "FREEBSD")
(any ".*fvwm\.org" "FVWM")
(any ".*muse-el-discuss.*" "MUSE")
(any ".*Facebook.*" "FACEBOOK")
(any ".*spiked-central" "SPIKED")
;;catch the rest
"OTHER"))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
atb
Glyn
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