From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78404 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mail-sources versus select-methods Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:01:16 -0400 Message-ID: <844o6bnioj.fsf@davestoy.home> References: <87lizv5ro9.fsf@bifteki.lan> <84r59mncl0.fsf@davestoy.home> <84oc4n5ysz.fsf@davestoy.home> <9239lxm0lr.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> <84y63o4bg3.fsf@davestoy.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302127376 28867 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2011 22:02:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 22:02:56 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26707@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Apr 07 00:02:52 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7aoM-000366-TM for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:02:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7anH-0004Jp-VN; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:01:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7anG-0004Jh-V6 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:01:42 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7an0-0000ny-BK for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:01:43 -0500 Original-Received: from vms173017pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.17]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7amy-0001R6-HB for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:01:24 +0200 Original-Received: from davestoy.home.verizon.net ([unknown] [173.48.216.252]) by vms173017.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0LJ900DHV3U02HI2@vms173017.mailsrvcs.net> for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:01:13 -0500 (CDT) X-Face: W!bie|rYVd43O:2CkHTb*~s5}Yzx30X<@6Tq_bnP56Hp!xX4sVl4tgYRirjRcke\wfY!JJ9 i?]VIUJicJzq2\!3%7$5R%wi!R[.]Va97q In-reply-to: (Richard Riley's message of "Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:39:13 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) XEmacs/21.4.22 (linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78404 Archived-At: > david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg) writes: >>>> Apples and oranges. The two are complementary - there's no >>>> competition here. >> >>> But there is. You can achieve the same thing using both. My Q is what s >>> best and why. >> >> Really? How can you use a mail source without a select method? > I never suggested you can. I said you can read mail and news without > setting mail-sources. Local and remote afaik. OK, so we're in violent agreement :-) > My point is that you dont need to set mail-sources. It seems that it can Right, that's exactly what I said. But now I understand what you're referring to. Yes, it is possible to specify the mail-source equivalent directly in the select method. I expect that's something that got added on over time. I have mail-sources set at home for my POP server, but I've been set up that way since September Gnus (and maybe even earlier though I am pretty sure I was still using mh-e back in those days). -- Dave Goldberg david.goldberg6@verizon.net