Glyn Millington <wistansw...@linuxmail.org> writes: > Richard Riley <rile...@googlemail.com> writes: > >> a...@koldfront.dk (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? The docs say the mail *backends* look there. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english