From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57757 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: fetchmail+procmail+gnus, mailsource or Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 07:08:00 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <86y8ndnnpr.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> References: <20040528023734.GA30134@ipanel.cn> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085721016 12277 80.91.224.253 (28 May 2004 05:10:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 05:10:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6298@lists.math.uh.edu Fri May 28 07:10:07 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BTZd9-0003uY-00 for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 07:10:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BTZbL-00062c-00; Fri, 28 May 2004 00:08:15 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BTZbD-00062W-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 28 May 2004 00:08:07 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BTZbB-0001uq-0d for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 28 May 2004 00:08:05 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20BBA3A0035 for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 00:08:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BTZb9-0004vB-00 for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 07:08:03 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.4.37.213 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1085720883 18843 139.4.37.213 (28 May 2004 05:08:03 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 05:08:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zeDk8h+PC0uC6+bTvmwUKRGM2r4= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57757 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57757 Ding Lei writes: > I am currently using the fetchmail & procmail combo. The manual saids > that you need to specify an mail backend for the "mail-source" which gnus > fetches mails from, which in my case fetchmail & procmail done that already. > So which variable shall I set to tell Gnus read those mails from the > specified maildir: /data/emails/company, /data/emails/gnus-list, /data/emacs-list ... There are different possibilities. You could let Gnus read/write the maildir written by procmail directly. In this case, nnmaildir is your friend. nnmaildir is a backend, and it is documented in the Gnus manual. Another possibility is that you let procmail write into some directories, but that you want Gnus to store the mail in another directory. In this case, you need a mail-sources entry. For both alternatives, you need Gnus 5.10. Does this help? Kai