Glyn Millington <wistansw...@linuxmail.org> writes: > Richard Riley <rile...@googlemail.com> writes: > >> 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? > > I don't use any other mail backends. Are you wanting to use more than > one? >
I do : nnml and nnimap. Maybe not a good idea. But somehow, in a galaxy far far away, I was under the impression that nnml was the easiest way to get local system email (root/cron jobs etc). The rest I sync with gmail via offlineimap. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english