Richard Riley <[email protected]> writes: > Glyn Millington <[email protected]> writes: > >> 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"))) >> > > > Thanks for the examples. its amazing how many different ways people > get this going. > > My "dummy" question of the minute here is:- > > mail-sources : how does nnml know its got control of them? What about > other mail backends?
I don't use any other mail backends. Are you wanting to use more than one? atb Glyn _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
