From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/17130 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rajappa Iyer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mh backend Date: 15 Sep 1998 14:06:12 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <199809151806.OAA04708@placebo.ho.lucent.com> References: Reply-To: rsi@lucent.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155886 31764 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:18:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:18:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA10193 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:05:48 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAF32269; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 12:36:37 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 15 Sep 1998 13:04:05 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA06320 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 13:03:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from cbgw1.lucent.com (cbgw1.lucent.com [207.24.196.51]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA10155 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:03:48 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from placebo.ho.lucent.com by cbig1.firewall.lucent.com (SMI-8.6/EMS-L sol2) id OAA28094; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: (from rsi@localhost) by placebo.ho.lucent.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA04708; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:06:13 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: "(ding)" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.41/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17130 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17130 Stainless Steel Rat writes: > "PH" == Phil Humpherys writes: > > PH> I'm forever converted to gnus, but am interested in using the mh > PH> backend to gnus rather than the default nnml. > > Is there any particular reason you want to do so? Because there is little > difference between nnml and nnmh, other than a) for Gnus nnml is faster and > b) you only need nnmh if you also use MH. I switched to nnml from MH quite some time ago, but there are a few things about MH that I miss and can't quite duplicate them with Gnus + nnml. 1. Message sequences. 2. Picking messages based on patterns in their body or some header field. 3. When I periodically delete some mail, I can folder -pack to renumber all the messages. With Gnus it is a lot more painful. -- Rajappa Iyer #include We're too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.