From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78285 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: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:34:51 -0400 Message-ID: <84r59mncl0.fsf@davestoy.home> References: <87lizv5ro9.fsf@bifteki.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301610986 23939 80.91.229.12 (31 Mar 2011 22:36:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:36:26 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26593@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Apr 01 00:36:19 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 1Q5QTQ-00089a-U0 for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:36:17 +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 1Q5QSK-0003Fd-AD; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:35:08 -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 1Q5QSI-0003FT-JW for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:35:06 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5QSH-0003r0-6z for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:35:06 -0500 Original-Received: from vms173007pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.7]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5QSG-0003sv-6G for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:35:04 +0200 Original-Received: from davestoy.home.verizon.net ([unknown] [173.48.216.252]) by vms173007.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0LIY0074V1DYTZ30@vms173007.mailsrvcs.net> for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:34:47 -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 "Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:34:44 +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:78285 Archived-At: > Leonidas Tsampros writes: >> Richard Riley 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