a...@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:59:40 +0100, Richard wrote: > >>> nnml does not store in mbox format: > >>> ,----[ 6.3.13.3 Mail Spool <http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_194.html#SEC194> ] >>> | >>> | If you use this back end, Gnus will split all incoming mail into files, >>> | one file for each mail, and put the articles into the corresponding >>> | directories under the directory specified by the nnml-directory >>> | variable. The default value is `~/Mail/'. > >> So what format? Maildir? > > No, that would be nnmaildir.
nnmaildir is a format? I thought it was a back end that fed on Maildir? Possibly silly wording issues only. I dont know at times. > > nnml stores mail in its own format, call it nnml-format if you wish - > i.e. each article in a file by itself and with a .overview and a .marks > file for each group. > >> What is a "nnaml-directory"? > > nnml-directory is where the email (files and directories) are stored. > >> Maybe I'm overthinking it. > > Or under-, I dunno... ;-) Heh ... > >> But "nnml"? > > What about "nnml"? It's just the name of a backend to store email in. > >> My comments are also reflective of the times we see the same questions >> here and in #emacs : clearly it isnt at all clear. > > You'll need to say _what_ isn't clear. I think I have but not in a single coherent post. My mistake for "butterflying" back and forth. mea culpa. > >> As it is nnfolder, nnml and some others seem to be some sort of >> abstract gnus only concepts. > > Abstract is perhaps a little much, but they are Gnus concepts > (backends). What did you imagine they were? > >> I'm just voicing the difficulties and many others find trying to >> configure gnus. > > That is fine, but I find it very hard to understand what exactly it is > you don't comprehend, so my attempts at helping are quite feeble, I'm > afraid. And I fully understand : I am not communicating my poor understanding well as I'm -- confused ;) > >> One cant improve it if one doesnt know what something is;) What is nnml? > > I just quoted you half of the page in the manual that answers that > question, and even included the link: > http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_194.html#SEC194 - what else do you need? > (I'm not being sarcastic, I actually want your answer.) What I didnt understand is it proclaiming that its the "Mail Spool". Its not. Its ONE such. And whether its even a spool is questionable keeping in mind it defaults to fetching mail from the system spool. Possibly that was the catalyst that started my confusion. Possibly that explains where I was getting lost a little. I must admit the mist is clearing : I will be the first to admit I was lost in a cloud of my own confusion there for a while. But whats not helping me is something like this (setq gnus-select-method '(nnml "nnml")) (setq nndrafts-directory "~/Mail") (setq nnml-directory "~/Mail") and then starting Gnus and finding TWO Mail dirs. one in ~ and the other in .emacs.d. The ~/Mail is fine : it shows an "active" file and a "mail" dir. The one in .emacs has similar and ALSO an "incomingXXXXX" file. Examining the value of nnml-directory it tells me the value is ... "~/.emacs.d/Mail/archive". Its at this point my eyes start to mist over ... Thanks for taking the time to hand hold! _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english