Re: mail-sources versus select-methods

[david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg)]

> david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg) writes:
>>> Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr> writes:
>>>> Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:
>>>>> Undoubtedly an incredibly naive question but why would one use
>>>>> mail-sources over select-methods?
>>>>> 
>> 
>> One doesn't.  They are two complementary things.
>> 
> Hi,

> But one can. And I'm not clear what is best.

Apples and oranges.  The two are complementary - there's no competition here.

> One does not have to set up mail-sources. It can all be done in
> secondary methods - e.g see the nnimap select-method in the manual for
> gmail:-

That's right, you don't need to set up mail-sources if you're not sucking mail into a local back end.  If you are, then you need to tell Gnus from where to get it.  That's the mail-source.  The select method in that case would be the actual back end into which you're putting the mail.


>      (setq gnus-select-method
>            '(nnimap "imap.gmail.com"))

Right so here you're talking IMAP, over the network, and interacting directly with the server.  You don't need a mail-source because you're not pulling that mail into some local folder.  If you did you might use nnml or similar as the back end (select method).


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Dave Goldberg
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