Re: nnmaildir setup

[Hiroshi Fujishima <pooh@nature.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

Sebastian Luque <sluque@mun.ca> writes:

> With a lot of effort, I was able to somewhat setup gnus and import my mail
> from kmail (which uses maildir). The problem is mail is not getting picked
> from my pop server. The relevant lines from my ~/.gnus.el file are:
>
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gmane.org"))
> ;; Secondary method, other news and mail
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
> 	     '(nnmaildir "" (directory "~/.nnmaildir")))
> 			 
> (setq mail-sources '((pop :server "my.pop.server"
> 			  :user "XXXXX"
> 			  :password "XXXXX")))

Setting following variable may solve the problem.

(info "(gnus)Maildir")
| `get-new-mail'
|      If non-`nil', then after scanning for new mail in the group
|      maildirs themselves as usual, this server will also incorporate
|      mail the conventional Gnus way, from `mail-sources' according to
|      `nnmail-split-methods' or `nnmail-split-fancy'.  The default value
|      is `nil'.
| 
|      Do _not_ use the same maildir both in `mail-sources' and as an
|      `nnmaildir' group.  The results might happen to be useful, but
|      that would be by chance, not by design, and the results might be
|      different in the future.  If your split rules create new groups,
|      remember to supply a `create-directory' server parameter.

-- 
Hiroshi Fujishima