From: david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg)
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: mail-sources versus select-methods
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:34:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84r59mncl0.fsf@davestoy.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <w839m3o1l7.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> (Richard Riley's message of "Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:34:44 +0200")
> 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.
A backend is the entity from where Gnus reads email. You pick your backends through select methods. Some back ends work by communicating directly with a server, think nnimap, nntp. Others, such as nnml or nnfolder, look for mail on the local system. In most cases, these backends are just directories of files. The population of those directories can be done in a myriad of ways. If Gnus is going to be doing the populating, the mail-sources specification is how you tell Gnus to do it.
--
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-31 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-31 11:13 Richard Riley
2011-03-31 13:46 ` Leonidas Tsampros
2011-03-31 13:34 ` Richard Riley
2011-03-31 22:34 ` Dave Goldberg [this message]
2011-04-01 15:22 ` Richard Riley
2011-04-03 12:01 ` Dave Goldberg
2011-04-05 10:52 ` Richard Riley
2011-04-05 21:47 ` Dave Goldberg
2011-04-06 10:39 ` Richard Riley
2011-04-06 22:01 ` Dave Goldberg
2011-04-07 0:45 ` Richard Riley
2011-04-07 11:08 ` Dave Goldberg
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