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From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Gnus attempting to move mail from /var/spool/mail
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 21:35:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ms0r89p.fsf@reader.local.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878uhdqh2e.fsf@uwo.ca>

Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>> On one host, I want to run gnus devoid of any attempt to collect in
>> coming mail.
>
> You probably need to set the mail-sources variable to nil.  It
> defaults to reading from the spool file.  See the Fetching Mail
> section of the Gnus info docs.
>
> Dan

Thanks, that did it.

I have to say that it seems surprising to have to set a specific nil
rather than having to set a particular method of retrieval.

I mean, gnus main claim to fame is that it is the absolute best
newsreader, bar none.  It seems like it should not default to
collecting mail.  But not a big deal and many thanks for the good tip.




  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-09  2:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-08 15:42 Harry Putnam
2015-01-08 18:10 ` Dan Christensen
2015-01-09  2:35   ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2015-01-09 19:19     ` Adam Sjøgren
2015-01-11 14:42       ` Harry Putnam
2015-01-11 14:48         ` Adam Sjøgren
2015-01-08 19:38 ` Adam Sjøgren
2015-01-09  2:22   ` Harry Putnam
2015-01-09 19:11     ` Adam Sjøgren
2015-01-11 14:43       ` Harry Putnam

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