Re: [POLL]: Procmail or native gnus splitting ?

[kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)]

Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:

> As I don't (use procmail), I would like to know the percentage of
> Gnus user using the native (awesome) splitting feature of Gnus.

I have used Gnus splitting (both plain and fancy) and procmail (with
nnml) and also Sieve (with a Cyrus IMAP server).

All of them work well.

The advantage of the Gnus splitting is that it is better integrated
with Gnus (see nnmail-split-fancy-with-parent, for instance).

The advantage of the external methods is that they are somewhat
faster: splitting happens when the mail arrives, rather than when you
hit g.

> In the same way, does procmail allows Gnus or any other MUA, to poll
> their mails directly or does it force the use of another 3rd party tool
> such as fetchmail to achieve this task ?

Normally, procmail deposits mail in files in your home dir, where
Gnus picks them up.

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